"MortalsA living human being who is subject to death. An immortal, by contrast, is a being that never dies., I made you," announces ZeusThe king of the gods, known to the Romans as Jupiter., the all-powerful king of the gods. "And this is how you repay me!" Viewing TV footage of a hurricaneA storm with violent winds that move in a circular direction. with delight, he adds: "We need to make destruction really sing!"

Welcome to the wild world of Kaos. The drama launched on Thursday. Some people have already watched all eight hours of it - though sadly you have to be 15 to view it.

Kaos is based on the stories of the Greek gods. It imagines what would happen if they were in control of the modern world.

The series is written by the actress Charlie Covell. Her script, according to Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, is "hugely intelligent, funny and brutalCruel, violent, and completely without feelings.".

AdaptingChanging. myths for the modern day is not a new idea. James Joyce's book Ulysses took the story of the Greek hero's long journey home from TroyAn ancient city in modern-day Turkey. It is the subject of Homer's epic poem The Iliad. After a ten-year siege, the hero Odysseus finally took the city by hiding a group of Greek soldiers in a vast wooden horse, which the Trojans wheeled into their city. This is the origin of the expression "Trojan horse". and sets it in 1900s DublinThe capital and largest city of Ireland. instead.  

And the recent musical Hades Town is another retelling of Greek myths, though this time the story is set among the American poor.

Are the Greek myths relevant today?

Yes! Greek myths are about things like love, power, death and families. These things will always exist, and so Greek myths will never be irrelevantNot important or relating to what is being discussed right now..

No! We now have science to explain the facts of the world. In the past, people did not know the cause of thunder - so they put it down to the anger of Zeus.