Les Grands Mythes - Season 1

Episodes

Zeus, la conquête du pouvoir

Season 1Episode 125 min

Zeus, la conquête du pouvoir

To earn the title of Master of Olympus, Zeus took many important steps, and overcame many challenges. His story is one of an incredible conquest of power, dating back to time immemorial, when the world began. Born from Chaos, Gaia - Mother Earth - mated with Uranus, the sky.

Les Amours de Zeus

Season 1Episode 225 min

Les Amours de Zeus

His first wife was Metis. His second, who was known as his wife on Olympus, was the jealous Hera. But there was also Themis, the goddess of Justice, with whom he produced the Hours, the Fates and the Mnemosyne - meaning "memory" - who gave birth to nine Muses. In order to achieve his aims, Zeus metamorphosed. He was an expert at changing shape and form.

Prométhée, le révolté de l'Olympe

Season 1Episode 325 min

Prométhée, le révolté de l'Olympe

Taking revenge against Prometheus, Zeus created the first woman - the beautiful Pandora. He gave her a manipulative and deceptive character, and subjected Prometheus to terrible torture. But although Zeus and Prometheus both shared a shrewd and cunning nature, they clashed fiercely. Prometheus wanted to be of help to mankind, and managed to convince Zeus to give them fire.

Hadès, le roi malgré lui

Season 1Episode 425 min

Hadès, le roi malgré lui

Having become organizer of the world, Zeus entrusted the world of the sea to his brother Poseidon, and the underworld, or the kingdom of the dead, to Hades. Alone, in a place he had not chosen himself, Hades reigned over the people of the shadows and over the grimacing creatures that surrounded him.

Athéna, la sagesse armée

Season 1Episode 525 min

Athéna, la sagesse armée

The Goddess of War Athena was the wisest, most level headed and rational deity. She was born out of Zeus' skull, wearing a helmet and holding a spear. She was the protector of heroes, the State, and mankind, to whom she passed on many inventions.

Apollon, l'ombre et la lumière

Season 1Episode 625 min

Apollon, l'ombre et la lumière

Although they were the son and daughter of Zeus, Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were born under threats from the goddess Hera. Zeus' wife Hera never forgave the twins' mother - the nymph Leto - for her union with the King of Mount Olympus, and she forced Leto into exile.

Aphrodite, sous la loi du désir

Season 1Episode 725 min

Aphrodite, sous la loi du désir

Kronos revolted against his father Uranus. He severed his father's genitals, and threw them into the sea, where they mingled with the foam and gave birth to Aphrodite. Aphrodite was born from this highly unusual union. She inspired romantic love and physical attraction in equal measure.

Dionysos, l'étranger dans la ville

Season 1Episode 826 min

Dionysos, l'étranger dans la ville

Zeus had a reputation for being a seducer of women. One day he lay with a mortal - Semele, the daughter of the king of Thebes. Their son Dionysos was brought up by nymphs. One day he discovered the vine, and decided to travel the world teaching mankind the art of making wine out of it.

Hermès, le messager indéchiffrable

Season 1Episode 925 min

Hermès, le messager indéchiffrable

Hermes was the youngest of the Gods of Olympus. Right from birth, he was an insolent, thieving, trickster God. While still a baby, he escaped from the cave in which his mother Maia gave birth to him, and stole Apollo's herd.

Tartare, les Damnés de la Terre

Season 1Episode 1025 min

Tartare, les Damnés de la Terre

Tartarus, situated in the deepest part of the earth, is the prison of the Underworld. It is there that we find the fallen gods and the heroes banished ...

Psyché, la belle et la bête

Season 1Episode 1125 min

Psyché, la belle et la bête

In this myth, many versions of which have been passed down through the ages, Psyche is the Beauty. Concerned that his daughter did not have a suitor, Psyche's father consulted Pythia, who announced grave news: Psyche's father must leave her on a hilltop, from where a monster would come take her away.

Persée, la mort dans les yeux

Season 1Episode 1225 min

Persée, la mort dans les yeux

Perseus should never have come into the world. For fear of a prediction that made his grandson his assassin, King Acrisios locked up his daughter Danaë in a tower in the shape of a fortress ..

Orphée, l'amour impossible

Season 1Episode 1325 min

Orphée, l'amour impossible

Médée, l'amour assassin

Season 1Episode 1425 min

Médée, l'amour assassin

On his quest to find the Golden Fleece, Jason asked the cruel King of Colchis and his daughter Medea, a powerful sorceress, for help. Medea fell in love with Jason, helped him to find the precious Fleece, and fled with him.

Bellérophon, l'homme qui voulait être dieu

Season 1Episode 1525 min

Bellérophon, l'homme qui voulait être dieu

Thésée, ou les ravages de l'oubli

Season 1Episode 1625 min

Thésée, ou les ravages de l'oubli

Dédale et Icare, le rêve éclaté

Season 1Episode 1730 min

Dédale et Icare, le rêve éclaté

Dedalus, a prominent Greek inventor, settled in Crete among King Minos' court. Queen Pasiphaë, who had an all-consuming passion for a white bull, called upon his services. Dedalus found a way to allow Pasiphaë to mate with the bull, and Minos locked Daedalus and his son, Icarus, away for their betrayal. Dedalus found a way to escape - but his method put his own son's life in peril.

Héraclès, l'homme qui devint dieu

Season 1Episode 1830 min

Héraclès, l'homme qui devint dieu

Œdipe, le déchiffreur d'énigmes

Season 1Episode 1925 min

Œdipe, le déchiffreur d'énigmes

No mortal endured more terrible a tragedy than Oedipus. He was the son of King Laius, King of Thebes. The Gods forbade him to have offspring, and decreed that if Laius gave birth to a son, that son would kill him. Laius removed Oedipus from Thebes, and he grew up far away from the city, without knowing his true identity or the curse that weighed upon on him.

Antigone, celle qui a dit non

Season 1Episode 2025 min

Antigone, celle qui a dit non

Antigone was one of Oedipus' four children. She had two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, as well as a sister, Ismene. One day, her sister informed her that her two brothers, who were heirs to the throne of Thebes, were fighting each other for power. They had agreed to take power alternately, but when the time came for Eteocles to hand his crown over to Polynices, he refused. An war ensued.

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