History & Mythology
Complete stories, told properly, in about twelve minutes.
Wants a complete, well-told history or myth in one sitting - without a three-hour commitment, a clickbait hook, or a summary that leaves the story unfinished
Narration and artwork are AI-generated. Read how each episode is made.
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King Midas: The Man Who Got Exactly What He Asked For
The complete story of Midas, told twice over: the real Phrygian king buried at Gordion, and the legend of the golden touch and the donkey's ears that outlived him. Original researched script, AI narration and AI imagery, openly disclosed.
11 min · Greek Myth, Told Whole
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Greek Myth, Told Whole
Complete Greek myths in one sitting -- no cliffhangers, no summaries.
2 of 7 published
Episode 1: Orpheus and Eurydice: The Song That Almost Worked
The complete myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, told from the road out of the underworld. Original researched script, AI narration and AI imagery, openly disclosed.
6 min · Watch on YouTube
Set YouTube's altered-or-synthetic-content disclosure on every upload; the channel About page openly states AI narration and AI imagery
Episode 2: King Midas: The Man Who Got Exactly What He Asked For
The complete story of Midas, told twice over: the real Phrygian king buried at Gordion, and the legend of the golden touch and the donkey's ears that outlived him. Original researched script, AI narration and AI imagery, openly disclosed.
11 min · Watch on YouTube
Set YouTube's altered-or-synthetic-content disclosure on every upload; the channel About page openly states AI narration and AI imagery
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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