History & Mythology
Complete stories, told properly, in about twelve minutes.
Complete history and mythology stories, told in about twelve minutes. Original researched scripts, narrated with AI voice over painterly AI-generated imagery — openly disclosed on every episode.
Narration and artwork are AI-generated. Read how each episode is made.
First Episode
The Story of Medusa
Medusa was not born a monster. The story of how she became one, and who decided she deserved it.
Publishing 20 August · 12 min · Greek Mythology
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Every Episode
Episodes publish in numbered arcs, so the next one is a commitment rather than a coincidence.
Greek Mythology
Eight complete Greek myths, one story per episode, each told from beginning to end in about twelve minutes.
8 episodes, starting 20 August
Episode 1: The Story of Medusa
Medusa was not born a monster. The story of how she became one, and who decided she deserved it.
Publishing 20 August · 12 min
Episode 2: The Fall of Icarus
A father builds wings to escape a prison he designed himself. The warning everyone remembers, and the one they forget.
Publishing 23 August · 12 min
Episode 3: Persephone and the Six Seeds
How six pomegranate seeds divided the year, and why the Greeks needed a story to explain winter.
Publishing 26 August · 13 min
Episode 4: Prometheus and the Theft of Fire
The titan who chose humanity over the gods, and paid for it every single day.
Publishing 29 August · 13 min
Episode 5: Theseus and the Labyrinth
A tribute of fourteen children, a monster at the centre, and a thread that had to be someone else’s idea.
Publishing 1 September · 12 min
Episode 6: Orpheus in the Underworld
The one musician who talked death into a refund, and the single condition he could not keep.
Publishing 4 September · 11 min
Episode 7: Arachne and the Weaving Contest
A weaver good enough to challenge a goddess, and a tapestry that told the truth too well.
Publishing 7 September · 11 min
Episode 8: Sisyphus and the Endless Hill
The king who cheated death twice, and the punishment designed so that cleverness could never help him again.
Publishing 10 September · 14 min
Medieval Daily Life
What ordinary days actually looked like — how people slept, ate, worked, and travelled, reconstructed from what the records say.
6 episodes, starting 13 September
Episode 1: How Medieval Europe Actually Slept
Two sleeps a night, an hour awake in between, and what people did with it.
Publishing 13 September · 12 min
Episode 2: One Day in a Medieval Kitchen
From the first fire before dawn to the last pot scoured at night, in a household that had to feed forty.
Publishing 16 September · 13 min
Episode 3: Six Forgotten Medieval Trades
The jobs that held a town together and then vanished so completely that the words for them died too.
Publishing 19 September · 13 min
Episode 4: How Far You Could Travel in a Day
Twenty miles on foot, thirty on a horse you intended to keep. What that distance did to everything else.
Publishing 22 September · 12 min
Episode 5: What Happened After Dark
Curfew bells, candle rationing, and the surprising amount of medieval life that took place with no light at all.
Publishing 25 September · 12 min
Episode 6: Medieval Medicine, Honestly Explained
Some of it worked. Most of it did not. The interesting part is which, and how anyone could tell.
Publishing 28 September · 13 min
How an Episode Is Made
Researched, Not Rewritten
Every episode begins as an original script written from primary and reference sources. Nothing is rewritten from another video.
Painterly Artwork
Scenes are illustrated as AI-generated stills. They are never made to look like photographs or archival footage.
Narration and Score
An AI voice reads the script at documentary pace, over a score that marks the chapter transitions.
One Story, Start to Finish
Twelve minutes, three or four chapters, and an ending. Never a fragment of something longer or a summary that stops early.
AI Disclosure
The narration is an AI voice. The artwork is AI-generated. This is disclosed on every upload using YouTube’s altered-or-synthetic-content setting, and stated here.
The research and the scripts are not AI-written. They are original work, written from sources and checked before anything is produced.
No episode presents synthetic imagery as real footage, and no episode depicts a real living person.
Editorial Standards
History and myth are not the same kind of claim, so episodes keep them apart. Sources are cited under three headings:
- Documented Fact
- Attested in the sources cited on the episode.
- Legend
- Told as story rather than record. Myths are presented openly as myths.
- Inference
- Our reading of the evidence, marked as ours rather than attributed to a source that did not say it.
Episodes avoid clickbait framing, manufactured urgency, and jump scares. If we get something wrong, we would rather hear about it — hello@thothy.ai.
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