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
7:06 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There
16:41 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years
23:54 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt
34:31 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca
45:25 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates
53:36 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things
1:01:43 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door
1:11:08 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear
1:20:54 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires
1:29:43 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships
1:44:45 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis
1:50:09 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.
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.
🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC
🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1890348796
#SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus
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
7:06 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There
16:41 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years
23:54 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt
34:31 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca
45:25 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates
53:36 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things
1:01:43 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door
1:11:08 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear
1:20:54 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires
1:29:43 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships
1:44:45 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis
1:50:09 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.
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.
🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC
🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1890348796
#SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus