Achilles Hidden in a Dress Before Troy · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story
The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy TaleShow Notes
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind. This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channel Chapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above) 0:00 Welcome 7:07 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There 16:42 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years 23:56 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt 34:33 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca 45:28 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates 53:40 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things 1:01:47 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door 1:11:16 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear 1:21:03 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires 1:29:52 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships 1:44:55 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis 1:50:18 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sails Going Out at Dawn 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. #SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus
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