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Liv Reads Thucydides: Classical Greece's Mythical History

5/3/2024 • 35 min

Liv reads a selection from Book 1, chapter 1 of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley. The ancient Athenian historian recounts the cultural "history" of the Bronze Age during the Classical period. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a … Play episode

Conversations: When the Network Went Down, the Bronze Age Collapse w/ Dr E…
Conversations: The Evidence is in the Thigh Bone, Climate and Collapse in …
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper, the Collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterrane…
Conversations: From Homer, With Love… The Evolution of Oral Storytelling w…
How History Becomes Mythology, Bronze Age Greece in the Wider Mediterranean
Conversations: The Things They Found in Tombs, Bronze Age Mycenae w/ Dr Ki…
Under the Shadow of Agamemnon, the Real Bronze Age Mycenae
There Once Was a Man Named Minos, the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete
The Bronze Age, Mythic Origins and the Real People Behind Them
Conversations: Charybdis, a Gaping, Hungry Hole; Fear of the Monstrous Wom…
High Priestess of Ur, the World’s First Author, Enheduanna
LTAMB: The Bronze Age Collapse Coming April 2
Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 3)
BONUS: Selections from Conversations w/ Dr Melissa Funke and Dr Rebecca Fu…
Beloved of Aphrodite, the Lives & Legacies of Ancient Greek Sex Workers
Conversations: Better Off With Bears, Artemis & Goddess Worship w/ Dr Carl…
What Makes a Monster? What if Ovid's Medusa Was Thinly Veiled Misogyny
On Circe's Island Anything is Possible, Queer Theory w/ Julia Perroni
Parthenogenesis, Prehistoric Goddesses, and the Threat of an Independent W…
Conversations: The Feminism of Female Rage, Demeter's Winter Harvest w/ Io…
Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 2)
A Full Cast Reading of Emperor Julian’s Symposium of the Caesars
Conversations: A Bunch of Rulers Sit Down for a Chat, Julian’s Symposium w…
But He’s Such a Nice Guy! Ovid’s Ars Amatoria in Mythological Practice
Conversations: When Ovid Invented Pick-up Artistry, the Ars Amatoria w/ Im…
He Is Not All That, Pygmalion the Misogynist Mythological Incel
Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 1)
You Can Learn All Greek Myth Has to Offer... & the Father Still Devours Hi…
Conversations: Novelizing the *Best* Ancient City-State, Riddles of the Sp…
RE-AIR: Sister, Saviour, Survivor, the Gorgon Medusa
Conversations: A Peek Behind the Ancient Scenes, the Culture of Theatre w/…
RE-AIR: You Know He Basically Invented Robots?! Hephaestus & His Forge
Liv Reads Hesiod: The Works and Days
Digging Deeper Into Minor Gods, Exploring Greece, and Praising Dionysus (N…
Conversations: It's Hestia's World, We're Just Living In It... Divine Migh…
Digging Deeper Into Minor Gods, Exploring Greece, and Praising Dionysus (N…
Conversations: Giving a Voice to the Very Specifically Voiceless, Alcestis…
RE-AIR: We Get it, Liv, You Really Like Euripides (Helen w/ CW Marshall & …
RE-AIR: If We're Talking Euripidean Women, Can't Forget Alcestis
RE-AIR: We Love a Complex Woman Living Through the Trojan War, Euripides' …
Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book XV
Half Naked Dudes & Lots of Blood, Gladiators on Screen w/ Alexandra Sills
Conversations: Wandering Through Wine Culture, Ancient Greek Drinking w/ D…
Estranged Siblings, a Mysterious Statue, and a Dramatic Escape (Euripides’…
Conversations: Zeus Just Can't Keep It In His Chiton, Theologizing the God…
Orestes, Captaining the Ship of Catastrophe (Euripides’ Iphigenia Among th…
Conversations: Assigning Order to the Chaos, Theologizing the Gods w/ Dr. …
No One Does a Dramatic Sibling Reveal Quite Like Euripides (Iphigenia Amon…
Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphses Book XIV

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