How You Leave Dinner With the Greek Gods Alive

You are invited to dinner on Olympus. Your first chair is already smoking. Survive the seats, courses and divine egos without giving up the person waiting at home. An original second-person comedy with earned dramatic stakes: a mortal guest must give an honest verdict on the Greek gods’ hospitality, refuse dangerous gifts and remember one last offering. Chapters 00:00 A lethal place setting 01:23 The guest duties 02:04 Hera or Athena? 03:02 Ambrosia and leftovers 04:23 Wine needs a name 05:24 Grain and mothers 06:04 Underworld dessert 07:10 The cost of forever 08:56 An honest verdict 09:55 The last offering 10:58 Leaving Olympus 11:59 A safe table Sources and further reading Pindar, Olympian 1.54–64 — Tantalus, nectar and ambrosia (source excerpts): https://open.online.uga.edu/gantzmyth... Homeric Hymn to Demeter 202–211, 370–413 — grain drink and pomegranate; H. G. Evelyn-White translation (1914): https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHym... Homeric Hymn 29 to Hestia 1–6 — first and last wine offerings; Evelyn-White (1914): https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHym... Homer, Odyssey 9.266–271 — Zeus and guests; A. T. Murray translation (1919): https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerOdyss... Hesiod, Theogony 383–403, 775–806 — Styx and divine oaths; Evelyn-White translation: https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheo... #GreekMythology #FictionLifeStories #Olympus