587 episodes
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold iHeartPodcasts and Liv Albert
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The most entertaining and enraging stories from mythology told casually, contemporarily, and (let's be honest) sarcastically. Greek and Roman gods did some pretty weird (and awful) things. Liv focuses on Greek and Roman mythology's (mis)treatment of women, the wild things the gods did, and the all around incredible minds of the ancient world. Gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everything in between. Regular episodes every Tuesday, conversations with authors and scholars or readings of ancient epics every Friday.
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Not With a Bang, but a Whimper, the Collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean
A brief look at the causes behind the societal collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. 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: The Landmark Thucydides edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Richard Crawley; The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean edited by Eric H. Cline; 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline.
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Conversations: From Homer, With Love… The Evolution of Oral Storytelling w/ Dr Joel Christensen
Liv is joined by Joel Christensen to talk all things oral storytelling, the tradition, theories on its origins, and how the Iliad and the Odyssey intersect with their ancient origins. Read more from Joel on Sententiae Antiquae. 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.
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How History Becomes Mythology, Bronze Age Greece in the Wider Mediterranean
A brief look at the wider Mediterranean during the Bronze Age and their interactions with Greece (mostly... the Evidence For Troy). 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: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley; The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean edited by Eric H. Cline; Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed; Damien Stone, The Hittites: Lost Civilizations
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Conversations: The Things They Found in Tombs, Bronze Age Mycenae w/ Dr Kim Shelton
Liv is joined by Dr Kim Shelton to dive deeper into the real world of Bronze Age Mycenae and all we've learned from what they left behind. Learn more about Dr Shelton's work 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 deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
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Under the Shadow of Agamemnon, the Real Bronze Age Mycenae
Continuing on with the Bronze Age history of Greece, a look at the famed Mycenaeans, the historical origins behind the mythic heroes of Homer. 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: The Landmark Thucydides edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Richard Crawley; The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean edited by Eric H. Cline; Rodney Castleden's Mycenaeans; Alkestis Papadimitriou and Elsi Spathari's Mycenae: A journey in the World of Agamemnon.
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There Once Was a Man Named Minos, the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete
A (very brief) history of the Minoan people of Bronze Age Crete. 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: The Landmark Thucydides edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Richard Crawley; The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean edited by Eric H. Cline; Rodney Castleden's “Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete”; Nicoletta Momigliano's “In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete”.
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.
Customer Reviews
Amazing
Such an amazing podcast. It will make your day without fail
problematic feminist stance
hey, it’s a woman here.
i’ve only listened to every episode up to XXX, so forgive me if i’m not up to date. but i wanna talk about the way you portray feminism in your podcast. being a feminist myself, i appreciate that you try to infuse feminism into greek myths. i really do. it’s important and educational.
but i feel like the stance from which your approach feminism is quite problematic. you just complain about it, and repeat the same complaints over and over again
throughout the podcast. like yes, we get the idea! but that’s not helpful feminism. that’s just, i’m sorry, really irritating.
the way you complain the myths turn men off. sure. some of them are just terrible people, but also, as a woman, your comments have seemed really inane and irritating to me as well. all you do is talk about how terrible men are, and how much women suffer. that is a fact of ancient greek life, but can’t we extend discussion beyond that toxic gender dynamic? can’t we approach it from a more neutral stance, where we talk about exactly what’s wrong without all that loaded language you constantly use, and find a Lesson that we can draw from these myths? If you want to have actual, constructive education on feminism, what you talk about can’t be so loaded and needs to be backed up by research. that’s why you’re turning all genders off. it’s not just the men who find it annoying. plus, you can’t accomplish actual feminist education with this because we’re not learning ANYTHING! We just know how bad the men are. Please EXPLAIN things, instead of just making 500 comments in an episode and leaving it at that—this just seems like meaningless, surface-level feminism.
moreover, the double standards—i noticed you excused aphrodite’s affairs, because “they’re better and she’s a woman”. Like, what??? Feminism isn’t about double standards. Women don’t need that—if we screw up, we can hold our ground. Feminism is about making sure that both genders are on the same level! so when you excused aphrodite, it just seemed like really bad feminism to me. just don’t comment on it, if it’s unnecessary.
i’m sorry for how harsh i sound here, but i sincerely believe that your stance on feminism needs a lot of improvement. you can maybe try to get some feedback from other people as well, or people who’ve done gender studies and feminist theory. but i still love the premise of your podcast—you just have to research your feminism better.
Almost perfect
This show is really informative and easy to understand. She always gives her feminist stand which is awesome. However, I see that sometimes she attributes female gods mistreating males to bad writing by men because women would not do that (but not for the other way around). It was a bit shocking since Liv is almost always woke. I don’t think dismissing abuse is appropriate especially when we are all fighting it and encouraging men to come out and not be victims of toxic masculinity (including her) but overall, very informative!