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

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(Mostly) Archaic Myths as Cultural Memory of the Bronze Age

5/7/2024 • 44 min

Revisiting past episodes featuring myths born of the cultural memory of the Bronze Age. Find the full Bronze Age playlist here. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing. Sources: See the individual episodes' descripti… Play episode

Liv Reads Thucydides: Classical Greece's Mythical History
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…

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