Why Do We Keep Retelling Myths? | The Mythology of Mythology
Published: October 15, 2026
Duration: 46:46
Why do we keep retelling myths?
Settle into The Mythology of Mythology, a thoughtful sleep story about ancient stories, the people who explain them, and the new stories those explanations become.
In a quiet workroom at the British Museum, a young engraver reads a broken clay tablet. A boat rests on a mountain. A dove goes out and comes back. George Smith has found a flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and an old question begins again: what kind of thing is a myth?
Tonight we follow that question across centuries and cultures.<...
Settle into The Mythology of Mythology, a thoughtful sleep story about ancient stories, the people who explain them, and the new stories those explanations become.
In a quiet workroom at the British Museum, a young engraver reads a broken clay tablet. A boat rests on a mountain. A dove goes out and comes back. George Smith has found a flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and an old question begins again: what kind of thing is a myth?
Tonight we follow that question across centuries and cultures.<...