A Broken Horse: Episode Fourteen

Episode 14,   Oct 26, 2023, 10:05 AM

Polypoetes is a king without a people, having sent the Lapiths home, and finds himself often in the company of Briseis while they await the return of their respective ships, after Achilles is sent off to Lesbos for ritual purification. Demophon and Polypoetes accuse Menestheus of orchestrating the assassination attempt on Demophon's life before the Achaean Assembly and High King Agamemnon.

Polypoetes is a king without a people, having sent the Lapiths home, and finds himself often in the company of Briseis while they await the return of their respective ships, after Achilles is sent off to Lesbos for ritual purification. Demophon and Polypoetes accuse Menestheus of orchestrating the assassination attempt on Demophon's life before the Achaean Assembly and High King Agamemnon.

Episode Fourteen includes:

  • Chapter Twenty-Seven: Polypoetes
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While A BROKEN HORSE can be enjoyed as a standalone work, if you haven't read or listened to Amalia Carosella's other mythic retellings, don't miss HELEN OF SPARTA and BY HELEN'S HAND, the story of Helen's life BEFORE she was stolen away to Troy!

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Written and narrated by Amalia Carosella, Produced by Libbie Hawker/Grant