Texas Music Forge

The foremost couple in ancient Athens, source of scandal and gossip, friends of Socrates and Plato, plague victims and partners in a love affair which lasted beyond the grave.  Includes the song "Aspasia".

This week:  Flooding, free range sharks and a bluegrass version of "When The Levee Breaks".

The Song of Solomon is taken from the pages of the Old Testament and is a paean to a more direct, sweatier and more human kind of love.

Ulysses returns after 20 years to find Penelope and his kingdom under siege.  Will their marriage survive his return?

Ten years fighting before the walls of Troy, ten years to return home.  Ulysses survives - will his marriage to Penelope, who rules in his absence? Includes the song Ulysses On The Ocean.

She ruled over much of the earth and its population, yet she had a wild, ungovernable passion for Albert, her Prince Consort.  How did this marriage last to become a standard for an Empire?