2. Red's hilarious retelling of the medieval Chinese classic The Journey to the West ("Legends Summarized: Journey to the West") introduced me to this story and has enchanted me to the point where I am not only currently reading Volume 2 (of 4) of an unabridged, scholarly translation of the original hundred-chapter, poetry-studded, Chinese novel, and listening to podcasts about it, I have actually started writing fanfic for it. (Shhh! I shouldn't be writing fanfic until I've at least finished reading the whole novel! But it's so, so amusing...) (JttW got its first abridged translation into English in the early twentieth century, and its first unabridged in the 1980s. It wasn't translated into German in full until 2017!)
3. And here's a video that shows off Red's research, analysis, art, and "turn the tables" storytelling insight all together in one piece: "Miscellaneous Myths: Hades and Persephone."
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1. Recently, they had a lovely 2-part take on the Trojan War. Blue did the history and archaeology ("History Summarized: Mycenaean Greece & the Bronze Age Collapse") and then Red did the literature and mythology ("Legends Summarized: The Trojan War").
2. Red's hilarious retelling of the medieval Chinese classic The Journey to the West ("Legends Summarized: Journey to the West") introduced me to this story and has enchanted me to the point where I am not only currently reading Volume 2 (of 4) of an unabridged, scholarly translation of the original hundred-chapter, poetry-studded, Chinese novel, and listening to podcasts about it, I have actually started writing fanfic for it. (Shhh! I shouldn't be writing fanfic until I've at least finished reading the whole novel! But it's so, so amusing...) (JttW got its first abridged translation into English in the early twentieth century, and its first unabridged in the 1980s. It wasn't translated into German in full until 2017!)
3. And here's a video that shows off Red's research, analysis, art, and "turn the tables" storytelling insight all together in one piece: "Miscellaneous Myths: Hades and Persephone."
Enjoy!