Fate & Fabled
Join Dr. Moiya McTier & Emily Zarka and dig into the stories and characters of ancient mythologies to explore why such tales were crafted, and investigate mythology’s influence on humanity. (official site)
Featured Videos
The Fates: Greek Mythology's Most Powerful Deities
S1 Ep1 | 10m 19s
What Constellations Mean to Different Cultures
S1 Ep4 | 10m 20s
Why Aren't Angels Scary Anymore?
S1 Ep5 | 10m 22s
Episodes
Paradise on Earth: We Built Our Very Own Utopia
S3 Ep9 | 16m 48s
It’s Never Turtles All the Way Down
S3 Ep8 | 8m 38s
The War in Heaven
S3 Ep7 | 8m 23s
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About the Hosts
Emily Zarka, Ph.D. is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and holds a Ph.D. in British Romantic Victorian Literature with an emphasis on the Gothic. Her research explores the roles of desire and knowledge dissemination in portrayals of undead characters produced during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She approaches literature and film through monsters, applying the theory that human history is monster history.
Moiya McTier, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and folklorist based in NYC. After graduating from Harvard as the first person in the school’s history to study both astronomy and mythology, Moiya earned her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia University. Moiya has given hundreds of talks about science around the globe, consulted with companies like Disney and PBS on their fictional worlds. Moiya hosts and produces the Exolore podcast about fictional world building.
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