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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

En podcast av: Liv Albert and iHeartPodcasts

The most entertaining and enraging stories from mythology told casually, contemporarily, and (let's be honest) sarcastically. Greek and Roman gods did some pretty weird (and awful) things

Our American listeners can also listen to Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold at our American site

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RE-AIR: Very Extravagant Rich People, Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part Two)
Publicerades 2025-01-24

The most entertaining and enraging stories from mythology told casually, contemporarily, and (let's be honest) sarcastically. Greek and Roman gods did some pretty weird (and awful) things. Gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everything in between. Regular episodes every Tuesday, conversations with authors and scholars or readings of ancient epics every Friday.

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RE-AIR: Very Extravagant Rich People, Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part Two)

What Does it Meant to Rebel? (Ancient) Resistance to Imperial Violence

Liv Reads Statius: The Thebaid (Part 1)

Hermes Historia: Homer, have you heard of him? Pretty chill dude

Behind Every ‘Great’ Man… Metis, Thetis, and the Power of Prophecy

Conversations: They Weren't Always F***able, the History of Sirens & Harpies w/ Dr Ryan Denson

Greek Myth is So Much More Than Terrible Gods and Misogynist Monsters

RE-AIR: Conversations: Beware of the Splash Zone! Gladiators in the Greek World w/ Alexandra Sills

Hermes Homerica: They're Making an Odyssey Movie & We Have Thoughts

RE-AIR: Conversations: A Most Sophoclean Prophecy, Women & Wordplay in Sophocles’ Trachiniae w/ Amy Pistone

RE-AIR: Holiday Special: Battle of the Bastards, Who's The Worst? Theseus vs. Jason

Conversations: What Makes a Serial Killer, Mythological or Otherwise? w/ Debbie Felton

Battle of the Bastards: Achilles v Odysseus w/ Hermes Michaela

Can You Talk About the Cats in Greece? Another Q&A

The Oh So Disjointed Life of Helen of Sparta, and Hekate in the Haida Gwaii (Q&A)

RE-AIR: Conversations: From Homer, With Love… The Evolution of Oral Storytelling w Dr Joe

Musical Epics, a Reincarnation of Sappho, and Kaos... Your Questions, My Answers

Conversations: How Women Became Poets, Gender History in Greek Literature w/ Emily Hauser

RE-AIR: But What About Rome?! Roman Mythology & the Great Mother Cybele

Ancient History Fangirl: A Day at the Gladiatorial Games

When the Threat of a Woman Threatens to Take Down the Patriarchy, A Reading from Medusa

Conversations: From the Mythical to the Very Real, Ancient Women in Power w/ Stephanie McCarter

RE-AIR: Independent, Industrious, Badass & Brave, the Heroine of Greek Myth, Arcadian Atalanta

RE-AIR: Conversations: The Intersection of Magic & Medicine, Women as Medica in the Ancient World w/ Dr. Christie Vogler

RE-AIR: Wandering Across the Ancient World, the Mesopotamian & Phoenician Origins of Aphrodite

Conversations: The Horrors Persist! Disability in the Ancient Roman World

Hermes Historia: How Do You Pronounce Extispicy?!

RE-AIR: Liv Reads Lucian, The True History

It's Always Witching Hour Here, Revisiting Ancient Witchcraft (and More)

Hermes Historia: We Yearn for the Grave

This Episode is Full of Lies, Lucian's True History w/ Ancient History Fangirl

Conversations: What Does It Mean to Die by the Sword? Suicide in Ovid's Heroides w/ Asrar Mattsson Chaara

Liv Reads Ovid: Three (Relevant) Heroides

BONUS: The Partial Historians Talk Spartacus, With A Rebel Yell

Liv Reads Ancient Spooky: Speeches from Seneca's Thyestes and Agamemnon

RE-AIR: She Gives, She Takes Away, the Goddess Hecate & Her World of Witchcraft

Conversations: Nothing Like a Little Ritual Tearing Apart! Bacchae's Sparagmos, w/ Cosi Carnegie

RE-AIR: No Crime Have I Committed, Save to Speak the Truth, Cursed Cassandra

Conversations: Singing the Songs of Theatre, Music and Euripidean Theatre w/ Sean Gurd

Hermes' Historia: Evolution of the Theatron

I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides

Conversations: The Next Great Athenian Blockbuster, Euripidean Competition w/ CW Marshall

Apo Mechanis Theos; Deus Ex Machina; Gods in the Machine (Euripides Part 3)

Conversatons: The Missing Women of Euripides, Fragments w/ Dr Melissa Funke

Hermes' Historia: a Brief History of Ancient Theatre

Getting to Know An Ancient Greek Theatre Kid, Euripides’ Life & Times

Conversations: Performance and Gender Blending in Euripides w/ Sarah Olsen

Raging Misogynist or Original Social Justice Warrior? The Murky Life of Euripides

Conversations: Women Are Wet & Spongy, the History of the Female Body w/ Prof Helen King

Euripides, Odysseus, and the Only Surviving Satyr Play (Cyclops Part 2)

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy (Final)

It Began With an STI, Origins of Athenian Theatre & Euripides’ Satyr Play, Cyclops

Coming Soon: Euripides, the First (Best) Playwright

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 10)

Sometimes You Just Stumble Into Something... More As to Your Qs

The Best Answers Are Ridiculously Long Winded & Detailed in Historical Context... Answers (Q&A 2)

Is it Sappho, Sappho, or Psappho? Answering All Your Burning Questions (Q&A 1)

Conversations: Real Men Compete Naked, the Ancient Olympics w/ Alexandra Sills

Sing, Muse, of Gods and Wrestlers, Origins & Odes of the Ancient Olympics

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 9)

Remnants of a Matriarchy Hidden in the Crimes of Zeus (Part 2)

A Special Anniversary Episode, Seven Years of LTAMB

Remnants of a Matriarchy Hidden in the Crimes of Zeus

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 8)

SPECIAL! Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Heracles x Omphale by Ancient History Fangirl

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 7)

RE-AIR: It’s Almost Like Being Trans Isn’t New… Transgender Transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Conversations: Putting the Trans in Transformation, Iphis and Caeneus w/ Dr Joe Watson

Beloved Boyfriends of Greek Myth's Most Famous Heroes

Conversations: Beyond the Binary, the Divine Madness of Dionysus w/ Chiara Baldini

Gender Has Always Been Fluid, Just Ask Dionysus

Conversations: The Love of a Good Woman, Translating Sappho w/ Brendon Zatirka

When the Pythia Speaks, You Listen (Euripides’ Ion Part 4)

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 6)

For Love or Possession, Defining Ancient Parenthood (Euripides’ Ion Part 3)

Conversations: A Man of Many Turns, Odysseus & the Odyssey w/ Joel Christensen

Keeping the Secrets of Apollo, Euripides’ Ion (Part 2)

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 5)

Beware the Blood of a Gorgon, Euripides’ Ion (Part 1)