Not another Greek History podcast!

The first of the famous-movies episodes asks how the Greeks are connected to House Atreides, whether Troy is basically the prequel to Dune, and whether Paul Atreides is just a desert version of Jesus or something darker.

The episode raises the claims that Helen was murdered by another woman, that Hercules had African roots, and that the gods once made holograms, then questions Nolan's artistic license with Black Helen.

The episode traces how Europe got its name, asks which god could be called history's first sexual predator, who dumped one girl for her sister, who flew too close to the sun, and what is up with Greeks and cows.

The episode asks who is better at holding a grudge, Greeks or Persians, whether Alexander was running away from something or someone, what the connection with Thundercats is, why some Romans criticised him, and why his campaign ended.

The episode asks where Alexander was buried, what Julius Caesar said on visiting his tomb, whether that tomb has since been found and covered up, and how Judaism and Christianity were influenced by Alexander.

The opening episode of Famous Macedonians covers Philip and Olympias, Alexander's parents, asking how many wives Philip had, what Olympias's real name was, and why the battle of Chaeronea took place.

The episode covers Alexander, his tutor Aristotle, and his closest friend Hephaestion, asking whether Hephaestion was Alexander's lover, which continent Aristotle named, how Alexander humiliated the Spartans, and how Alexander influenced Asia.

The episode links Hanukkah to Greece, asks why Alexander attacked the Persians, whether running naked in cemeteries really happened, how Alexander defeated the Persian king, how long his longest siege lasted, and why the Egyptians saw him as a liberator.

The final episode of the Alexander the Great series asks who his unknown brother was, how Macedonia influenced Pompeii, who the men were that built and destroyed Alexander's empire, and why Alexander is still such a big deal.

The opening episode asks whether Alexander was Greek or Macedonian, names the philosopher who ghosted young Alexander, and asks where the Greek gods supposedly lived and whether Alexander believed he belonged among them.

The episode asks why other Europeans called Greece nationalistic and insane, what the 'Macedonian language' is, whether Greece has invaded Macedonia, who wanted a 'Macedonian' state, and how Alexander expresses Greece more than anyone.

The episode asks which countries mislead tourists, what movies and shows have been made about Alexander, who his unknown brother was, and what the historical sources are.

The episode covers Cassander, who ended Alexander's dynasty, his wife Thessaloniki, and Ptolemy, founder of Cleopatra's dynasty, asking who murdered Alexander's family, who became a mermaid, and what happened to the Library of Alexandria.

The episode frames Hanukkah as resisting Greek cancel culture, asks whether the first Jewish-Greek war was fought over a statue of Zeus, and describes a 'little horn' that terrified the Greek empire.

The episode asks who called Cleopatra a whore and why the label stuck for 2,000 years, how many siblings she killed, how many of her brothers she married, and what she named her several children.

The final episode of the Cleopatra series asks what really happened to Cleopatra's children, which child was raised by both Caesar and Octavian, and whether the Netflix 'Cleopatra' documentary came close to reality or was just ancient fan fiction.

The first episode of the Cleopatra series asks whether she was more Greek than Egyptian, describes Alexandria as the world's first city that never slept, and asks which ancient scientists deserve more credit than they ever got.

The closing episode of Famous Macedonians recounts the last fight of the Greeks against the Romans through Perseus and Cleopatra, asking who the last Greek monarch was, who sided with the Romans, and when Greece's Roman occupation ended.

Recorded outdoors in the Egyptian capital, the episode asks whether Cleopatra really died by snakebite or staged drama, what the Pantheon in Rome has to do with her final defeat, and whether her tomb's location is history's best-kept secret.

The episode asks what a child-eating god and the Minotaur have to do with Christmas, how many times a god can be born, whether Christmas is a Christian invention, and which fruit is said to have come from blood.

The episode reads real 1-star TripAdvisor reviews of the Parthenon and explains how accurate they are, asking whether the Acropolis is full of old people and whether this 'ugly' place is really a tourist trap.

The first episode on looted Greek antiquities, spanning antiquity to modern times, covers the Parthenon, Athena's statues on the Acropolis, the Temple of Zeus, Delphi, Delos, and the 'St. Mark's horses' in Venice.

The episode asks what Taylor Swift and Greek tragedy have in common besides killer choruses, whether Aristotle predicted the Eras Tour 2,300 years ago, and whether The Life of a Showgirl is actually a myth in disguise.

The episode asks whether a 'soulmate' is just a fix for a wound caused by Zeus, why the Greeks feared Eros as a dangerous 'madness,' and why naked men once chased women with goat-skin thongs.

The final episode on looted Greek antiquities describes helping repatriate a Greek artifact, how Americans looted Cyprus, enchanted Thessalonica statues, and the smuggling network of museums and dealers involved.

The episode asks whether ancient Greeks could mourn at any hour or only on a schedule for sorrow, whether you could be punished for not burying someone, and what kinds of tombs ranged from heroes to everyday souls.

The second episode on looted Greek antiquities, spanning antiquity to modern times, covers the Parthenon and Elgin, the 'Venus de Milo,' Nike of Samothrace, the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina, and the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, Greece's first UNESCO site.

The episode asks whether Santorini is really the Lost Atlantis or just a tourist trap, what Lara Croft has to do with ancient volcanoes and myths, and what the island's real name was before postcards renamed it.

The episode asks whether the first robot in history was actually built by a Greek god, what a bronze giant, Frankenstein and Blade Runner have in common, and whether a machine can have a soul.

The episode asks whether Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment stole a hero's light or a god's weapon, when 'celestial fire' becomes forever guilt after Oppenheimer unleashed the atom, and what the punishment for genius is, the eagle or the moral burden.

The episode pairs the Titan Prometheus with Mary Shelley's tragic life and Guillermo del Toro's film, asking whether Frankenstein's crime was the making or the abandoning of his creation, and what Shelley's darker view of Prometheus was.

The episode connects Scream to the Trojan War, asks who invented theatre and who is the original father of tragedy, and traces the word 'hypocrite' back to a question about what it has to do with masks.

The episode asks how an ancient Greek historian found his way into The English Patient, who came up with an excuse just to have someone killed, and who the real-life person behind the movie's mysterious protagonist was.

The episode asks what 17th-century Pilgrims and ancient Greek farmers have in common, and why the Greek word for 'turkey' is a clue that the entire world is confused about poultry.

The episode asks whether Apollo wrote the first K-Pop hit, whether the Saja Boys are just the Sirens with better choreography, and whether Apollo's serpent-slaying feat at Delphi was history or just him deleting the previous influencer's account.

The episode covers what Greeks and Romans said about Jesus before the Gospels, and asks how a Greek philosopher's book written to destroy the memory of Jesus actually became the reason his own name survived history.

Before the Halloween franchise, the Greeks already had their own horror franchise, Anthesteria; the episode asks whether Halloween was actually born in ancient Greece, whether Greeks howled at cemeteries long before jack-o'-lanterns, and names the Greek 'Psycho Sabbath'.

The episode asks whether a medieval monk named the Demogorgon, what scene echoes the Odyssey, and whether Will Byers is a hero, a victim, or the key to the ancient Greek underworld.

The episode challenges the idea that the Christmas tree is a modern tradition, describing ancient Athenians who hung gifts on olive branches thousands of years ago, and connects the custom, Eiresione, to the Minotaur and a bowl of bean soup.