Cattle of Helios
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Cattle of Helios has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland explains that solar cattle appear widely in Indo-European myth and their theft always represents an insult to the cosmic order.
“notions of solar cattle seem to have been very widespread. in the myths of the ancient Indo-Europeans”
The Rest Is History: 687. The Odyssey: Hero of the Trojan Horse (Part 1) (Jul 12, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:40
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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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687. The Odyssey: Hero of the Trojan Horse (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Jul 12, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook retell the first half of Homer's Odyssey, from Troy's fall to Calypso's island, and probe its roots in Greek colonisation.