This episode originally aired in July of 2023. Before she was Aphrodite, she was Kypris, and before she was Kypris, well, she was Astarte and Inanna/Ishtar. This is the story of Aphrodite's origins in ancient Phoenicia and Mesopotamia. You can submit your questions or comments or favourites here! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as defe...
Nov 05, 2024•39 min
Liv speaks with PhD student Cecily Bateman about their research in disability in the ancient world (spoilers: it's as horrifying as it is fascinating). 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 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 8Ep. 658
Happy Halloween! On today's Hermes Historia Michaela tells Liv all about the ancient practices of divination and speaking with the dead... Sign up for a new newsletter to stay in the loop about the upcoming ad-free subscriptions where future Hermes' Historia episodes will live! 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 refer...
Oct 31, 2024•46 min•Season 8Ep. 657
A re-airing of all three parts of Liv's 2022 reading of Lucian's True History, translated by Francis Hickes. In this 2nd Century CE satirical novel of epic proportions, Lucian if Samosata invents a world where he visits rivers of wine, takes a trip to space, a war inside a whale, and a heroic journey through the Underworld. 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 ...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 46 min
Featuring clips from episodes on Ovid's Medea, Chthonic Cuties, conversations with Antonia Aluko and Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts, and readings of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler. 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 original episode descriptions for sources. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast c...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 656
In this (late, it's still free for a reason) Hermes Historia episode, Michaela shares a brief history of ancient Greek funerary practices. Because Spooky Season. Sign up for a new newsletter to stay in the loop about the upcoming ad-free subscriptions where future Hermes' Historia episodes will live! 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 ...
Oct 24, 2024•50 min•Season 8Ep. 655
Liv teams up with Genn and Jenny of Ancient History Fangirl to tell the first half of Lucian's True History. 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. Sources: Lucian's True History , translated by HW Fowler and FG Fowler; Lucian of Samosata Project . Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast c...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 8Ep. 654
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. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions . Hosted on Acast. S...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 8Ep. 652
Liv reads three letters of Ovid's Heroides: Dido to Aeneas, Deianeira to Hercules, and Phyllis to Demophoon, to prepare for Friday's conver Submit 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 li...
Oct 15, 2024•46 min•Season 8Ep. 651
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 . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 11, 2024•29 min
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 Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found ...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 650
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:...
Oct 08, 2024•42 min
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. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions ....
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 8Ep. 649
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 f...
Oct 02, 2024•30 min
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 fict...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 8Ep. 648
Hermes Historia is a new series hosted by Liv and Michaela, brief lessons in ancient history. This time: the evolution of the physical theatre space... Sign up for a new newsletter to stay in the loop about the upcoming ad-free subscriptions where future Hermes' Historia episodes will live! 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...
Sep 26, 2024•43 min•Season 8Ep. 647
Some of the most realistic, sympathetic, complex, and villainous women of the ancient world are found in the works of Euripides. He seemed to have had an interest in the people on the margins, women, foreign "barbarians", and enslaved people. Today we're looking at them, and Euripides through them. Find the International Podcast Day livestream 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...
Sep 24, 2024•40 min•Season 8Ep. 646
What if Antigone had a happy ending, or if Oedipus was blind before he ever reached the city of Thebes? Liv speaks with Toph Marshall about the lost but not forgotten fragments of Euripides' Oedipus and Antigone. 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 ...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 645
Like most things Euripides wrote, his treatment of the Olympian gods and what they were capable of (and best of all, how that's received by mortals) is absolutely ripe for interpretation. Euripides walked the line of impiety and seemed to have a ball. 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: The Masque of Dionysus by Helen P Foley; Isabelle Tor...
Sep 17, 2024•38 min•Season 8Ep. 644
Liv speaks with Dr Melissa Funke about the gender and the women in Euripides' fragmentary works. Find more from Melissa at the Peopling the Past project. 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/...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 8Ep. 643
Hermes Historia is a new series hosted by Liv and Michaela, brief lessons in ancient history. In the future the series will be exclusive to supporters of the show (more on that soon!) but we're releasing the first few episodes on the main feed... First up, the history of ancient theatre. 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 we...
Sep 12, 2024•51 min•Season 8Ep. 642
Continuing with the life of Euripides we look closer at 5th Century Athens and how the events happening around Euripides likely influenced his writing and the stories he wanted to tell. 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: Brill's Companion to Euripides "Life of Euripides", William Blake Tyrell; Euripides' Ion , translated by Robert Potter;...
Sep 10, 2024•50 min•Season 8Ep. 641
Liv speaks with Sarah Olsen, editor of Queer Euripides, about performance and gender, and performing gender, in Euripides. 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 . Hosted o...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 640
We have more of Euripides' work than either of the other tragedians combined and yet the details of his life, him as a real person composing real art, are frustratingly lacking. And when they're not lacking, they're often just slander or wild misunderstandings of history. Today we begin looking at the life and times of Euripides, the first BEST playwright. 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...
Sep 03, 2024•39 min•Season 8Ep. 639
Liv speaks with Professor Helen King about her new book Immaculate Forms , and the history of the female body. From the ancient world (women were wet and spongy) to the more modern (Man Discovers Clitoris). Plus, Artemis and periods . 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 fou...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 8Ep. 638
Liv finishes telling the story of the only surviving Satyr play, Euripides' Cyclops and Euripides' take on Odysseus and Polyphemus...and a chorus of d*** swinging satyrs. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! 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: Euripides' Cyclops Companion by Carl A Shaw; Euripides' Cyclo...
Aug 27, 2024•30 min•Season 8Ep. 637
Liv reads the final books of the Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way. The final horrors of the war, and some satisfying bad luck for the Greeks on their way home... Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! 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.c...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 636
Liv looks at some of the more phallic origins of theatre (hint, it's very phallic) and retells the only surviving Satyr play, Euripides' Cyclops. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! 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: Euripides' Cyclops Companion by Carl A Shaw; Euripides' Cyclops from Six Classical Gre...
Aug 20, 2024•42 min•Season 8Ep. 635
No, Euripides was not the first playwright but he was the first BEST playwright. Coming September 3rd, we're diving into the man himself, the world in which he wrote, and everything that made him unique (and joyfully weird)! Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 19, 2024•2 min
Liv reads Book 12 and part of Book 13 of the Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way. The Greeks get a little divine help in the form of a follow wooden horse. It does not go well for the Trojans (or Sinon, or Laocoon). Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! 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...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 634
