• Conversations: What Does It Mean to Die by the Sword? Suicide in Ovid's Heroides w/ Asrar Mattsson Chaara
    Oct 18 2024

    Liv speak with Asrar Mattsson Chaara about female suicides in Ovid's Heroides. Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes! Sign up for the newsletter 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.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Liv Reads Ovid: Three (Relevant) Heroides
    Oct 15 2024

    Liv reads three letters of Ovid's Heroides: Dido to Aeneas, Deianeira to Hercules, and Phyllis to Demophoon, to prepare for Friday's converSubmit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes! Sign up for the Iris' Rainbow newsletter!

    CW/TW: Today's episode specifically references suicide, though brief.

    This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title! For a list of Roman/Latin names and who they were in the Greek, visit: mythsbaby.com/names

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    46 mins
  • BONUS: The Partial Historians Talk Spartacus, With A Rebel Yell
    Oct 11 2024

    An episode of the Partial Historians podcast about Spartacus, because why not? Pre-order Dr Rad and Dr G's new book, Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire now! Find out more and listen to the Partial Historians here.

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    29 mins
  • Liv Reads Ancient Spooky: Speeches from Seneca's Thyestes and Agamemnon
    Oct 11 2024

    Liv reads speeches from Seneca's Thyestes and Agamemnon, translated by Frank Justus Miller. Ask your questions for the next Q&A episode here!

    This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title! For a list of Roman/Latin names and who they were in the Greek, visit: mythsbaby.com/names

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    1 hr
  • RE-AIR: She Gives, She Takes Away, the Goddess Hecate & Her World of Witchcraft
    Oct 8 2024

    Revisiting... Hecate! A re-airing of the 2022 episode looking at everything there is to know about Hecate, all powerful goddess of witchcraft, and some real life women accused of witchcraft in ancient Greece. Submit your question for the next Q&A episode here, or sign up for our new newletter 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: Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Theoi.com entries on Hecate and Hesiod's Theogony; Heroines of Olympus; Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion both by Ellie Mackin Roberts; Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden; Magic in the Ancient Greek World by Derek Collins.

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    42 mins
  • Conversations: Nothing Like a Little Ritual Tearing Apart! Bacchae's Sparagmos, w/ Cosi Carnegie
    Oct 4 2024

    Liv speaks with Cosi Carnegie about sparagmos, the tearing apart of Pentheus, in Euripides Bacchae. Check out more from Cosi here. Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes!

    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.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • RE-AIR: No Crime Have I Committed, Save to Speak the Truth, Cursed Cassandra
    Oct 2 2024

    The final narrative episode of the Euripides series has been postponed... For now, welcome to Spooky Season. This episode originally aired in 2021.

    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: Theoi.com: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, translated by Herbert Weir Smyth and found on Theoi; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz. Episode title is an edited quote from Scream 2.

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    30 mins
  • Conversations: Singing the Songs of Theatre, Music and Euripidean Theatre w/ Sean Gurd
    Sep 27 2024

    Liv speaks with Sean Gurd who specialized in, and records reconstructions of, ancient music from its archaic origins down to the aulos players of Euripidean tragedy. The aulos pieces were recorded at the Ancient Music and Performance Lab at UT Austin and were written by Jonathan Churchett and Sean Gurd, aulos performed by Johnathan Churchett. Recordings used with permission. Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes!

    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.

    Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

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    1 hr and 33 mins