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Penelope, A Cunning Woman Surviving in a Man’s World (The Odyssey Part 11) Sep 03, 2019

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Penelope and the "stranger" who is Odysseus finally speak. And the suitors inch closer and closer to their doom.

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 Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson.

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Re-Broadcast: Mini Myth: It's Circe Not Cersei, One's a Badass Witch & the Other's a Badass B**** Aug 27, 2019

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A re-airing: Circe: Glaucus and Scylla, Medea, and, of course, Madeline Miller's book.

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: Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, and Circe by Madeline Miller.

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Mini Myth: Heliades & the Many Stories of Cygnus Aug 20, 2019

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Mourning that dumbass, Phaethon, and the many faces of a swan-man, Cygnus.

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: Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, the Greek Myths by Robert Graves.

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Checking the Suitors' Privilege (The Odyssey Part 10) Aug 13, 2019

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Odysseus and Telemachus get closer to finally doing away with the suitors, but first, confrontations and a cameo by Penelope.

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 Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.

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

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Mini Myth: I Ain’t Sayin’ He’s a Gold Digger, but Midas is Messing With, Well, Gold Aug 06, 2019

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Midas, he's got that Midas touch.

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: Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.

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

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Reunited and It Feels So Good (The Odyssey Part 9) Jul 30, 2019

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Odysseus is reunited with his son Telemachus. They enjoy some quality father-son plotting of murderous revenge.

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 Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.

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

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Mini Myth: Zodiac Constellations, Have You Hera-d the One About the Lion and the Crab? (Cancer & Leo) Jul 23, 2019

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A crab and a lion: two of Heracles' victims. But behind every mythological monster, there's a strong woman.

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 Greek Myths by Robert Graves, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus, translated by Robin Hard, and Eratosthenes and Hyginus Constellation Myths translated by Robin Hard.

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Ithaca, Is That You?! (The Odyssey Part 8) Jul 16, 2019

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Odysseus is FINALLY back in Ithaca, took him long enough! But nothing in Greek mythology is easy.

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 Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.

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

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Mini Myth: The Olympians Put the B in LGBTQ+, A Pride Compendium Jul 09, 2019

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The Olympians were nothing if not (very selectively) progressive. Dionysus, Pan, and Hermaphroditus: LGBTQ icons.

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, Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Robert Graves' The Greek Myths, and Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology.

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

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Don't Eat the Sun God's Cattle (The Odyssey Part 7) Jul 02, 2019

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Odysseus and his men escape from Scylla and Charybdis: the final dramatic episode before a whole new type of dramatic 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.

Sources: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.