Why Do We Keep Retelling Myths? | The Mythology of Mythology

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

Why do we keep retelling myths? Settle into The Mythology of Mythology, a thoughtful sleep story about ancient stories, the people who explain them, and the new stories those explanations become. In a quiet workroom at the British Museum, a young engraver reads a broken clay tablet. A boat rests on a mountain. A dove goes out and comes back. George Smith has found a flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and an old question begins again: what kind of thing is a myth? Tonight we follow that question across centuries and cultures.<...