Episode list

The party in the sea realm is fizzling out and the gossip Kat* finds herself left behind by her friend Lalli.* While looking for him, she stumbles upon a terrible truth. *KATALALIA meaning gossip or defamation in Ancient Greek.

Ganymede, Prince of Troy, shuns the company of men and only finds pleasure in nature. But when his exceptional beauty comes to the attention of men and gods, his life will never be the same.

It's party time in the sea realm - the Nereid Amphitrite is about to wed Poseidon - but she's having second thoughts. Can her sister Thetis persuade her to tie the knot in time? And what's really behind the ominous rumours the party guests are spreading?

Where is Justice? Who is she? And what does she have to do with the Trojan war?

She was known as Helen of Sparta until her face launched a thousand ships and started the Trojan War. Now Helen of Troy examines the multiple versions of her life - sifting through the beauty and sorrow - as the battle rages on outside.

In this special series, Tales of the NIght Sky takes you into the heart of a large group of asteroids that orbit with Jupiter around the sun. These two camps of heavenly bodies - the Greeks leading and the Trojans trailing Jupiter - are known as the Trojan asteroids. Each identified asteroid is named after a protagonist in Homer's Iliad. And these characters find themselves locked in orbit, endlessly reliving the trauma of war. In the first of the Trojans, the seer Aisakos interprets Queen Hecuba's dream.

In this second Trojan episode, King Priam remembers all that was lost in the first terrible siege of Troy.

There's an eerie stillness in the port town of Aulis when Iphigenia arrives there for her wedding. What exactly will it take to bring back the winds and allow the Greek ships to sail to Troy? 112 Iphigenia is a main-belt asteroid - not a Trojan in the L4 or L5 Lagrange points in Jupiter's orbit. But since her character is central to the Trojan war, we've included her in this special series.

Achilles, 'the best of the Greeks', slaughters Trojans mercilessly as he battles with his own grief and regrets.

Strange things happen one night, in a university observatory as Éloi struggles to stay awake and observe the 617 Patroclus asteroid.

Andromache appears in the university observatory to recount her tragic tale. 175 Andromache is a main-belt asteroid - not a Trojan in the L4 or L5 Lagrange points in Jupiter's orbit. But since her character is central to the Trojan war, we've included her in this special series.

You may know them as the Dioscuri - sons of Zeus - or as the Gemini Twins. In this episode discover the very unusual afterlife of the inimitable Castor and Polydeuces. The quote from the Homeric Hymn to the Dioscuri comes from the Evelyn-White translation.