Get Sleepy: Myths & Legends
Narrated by Thomas Jones
Get Sleepy: Myths & Legends retells old stories of gods, monsters, and mortals from Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia as slow, calming tales for bedtime.
This is a collection of original sleep stories, written by Alexandra Turney, Kayla Kurin, Alexander Saxton, Jo Steer, Diana Avram-Anghel, and Alicia Steffann, each one built around a myth from the ancient world. You'll wander the halls of Olympus with Greek gods and heroes, follow the sun through the Egyptian underworld with Ra and Osiris, and walk the streets of old Uruk in the company of Gilgamesh. Some episodes stay close to the source myths; others soften the sharper edges of the old tales, so a story that once ended in tragedy might drift instead toward rest.
Because it's a collection, there's no single plot to follow and no one hero to track from start to finish. Each tale stands on its own, so you can dip in anywhere without losing a thread — a good match for a listener who wants a fresh setting every night rather than one long story stretched across weeks.
The tropes here are the old ones: creation myths, trickster gods, doomed lovers, underworld journeys, and quests set against a backdrop of temples and desert stars. It's a good fit for anyone who loves mythology retellings, ancient history, or the kind of folklore that shows up in books about Zeus, Isis, or the epics of the Fertile Crescent — listeners who enjoyed Percy Jackson as a kid, or who just like their bedtime stories a few thousand years old.
Thomas Jones reads each episode soft and slow, favoring mood over plot. The myths become less about what happens next than the feel of a dark temple or a river god's slow current — somewhere for your mind to rest until sleep arrives.
