This is the Mesopotamian creation myth of Atrahasis, a human king who was chosen to save creation from the disastrous impulses of the gods... and a great flood that threatened to cover the earth.
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Nov 2022
Thanksgiving Special: Zorro, the Curse of Capistrano
He’s the swashbuckling fox of Southern California, a masked bandit who fights injustice with skill and swagger. In our Thanksgiving Special, meet the Curse of Capistrano, the lion-hearted legend himself, as he outwits his ruthless enemies and falls in love! Learn more about your ... Show More
1h 10m
Nov 2022
Thanksgiving Special: Zorro, the Curse of Capistrano
He’s the swashbuckling fox of Southern California, a masked bandit who fights injustice with skill and swagger. In our Thanksgiving Special, meet the Curse of Capistrano, the lion-hearted legend himself, as he outwits his ruthless enemies and falls in love! Learn more about your ... Show More
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Feb 2016
Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)
The Enuma Elish and the Atrahasis, in circulation 3,800 years ago, were Mesopotamia's creation and flood epics, making them 1,000 years older than Genesis. Benjamin Foster's Before the Muses (1,000-page anthology of Akkadian Literature) Stephanie Dalley's Myths from Mesopotamia ( ... Show More
1h 40m
Feb 2021
Climate Crisis, But Make it Ancient… Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Great Deluge
Which ancient civilization *didn't* have a flood myth, that's the real question! It's time for the full story of the flood myth of the ancient Greeks, the Great Deluge and Deucalion and Pyrrha.CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically invo ... Show More
25m 16s
Dec 2017
Prometheus, & the Other Origin of Species
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25m 1s
Apr 2025
Episode A1 - The Four Quarters
Synopsis: The launch of “The Ancient World – Ages”, a new series covering the Early Bronze Age Collapse (c. 2200 BC) and the remaking of Southwest Eurasia. We start things off with a discussion of the Ubaid and Uruk Periods of early Mesopotamia. “After Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhu ... Show More
40m 22s
<p>The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central to the Old Testament's narrative. </p><br><p>There was only one place to start and it's not "In the beginning..."</p><br><p>The story of the Flood in the Book of Genesis is well ... Show More
