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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
The most entertaining and enraging stories from 'Classical' mythology (and, often, ancient history of the wider Mediterranean!) told casually, contemporarily, and (more often than not) sarcastically. The world of Greek mythology and the history of the wider ancient Mediterranean is full of wonder, h...
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Roll Out the Red Carpet, King Agamemnon’s Home (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part 2)
Agamemnon is home, Clytemnestra is... plotting. Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Submit your question for th...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 5
Liv reads Book 5 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and...
Introducing... You Are Odysseus by L Jenkinson Brown
Introducing YOU ARE ODYSSEUS... A audiobook/podcast version of the new book by L Jenkinson Brown where You Are Odysseus, making the same decisions, or...
RE-AIR: Euripides Has No Business Making Us Feel for Agamemnon! (Iphigenia at Aulis, Part 1)
NOTE! This episode originally aired in 2021. A new episode of the Agamemnon series will come out next week, this week life got in the way... So please...
Conversations: It's All Greek to Me! Ancient History 101 w/ Alexandra Sills
Liv chats with Alexandra Sills about her new podcast with the Memory Collective, Ancient History 101. Subscribe to Ancient History 101 wherever you ge...
Woman, You Speak Like a Sensible Man! Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Part 1)
It's time, nerds. We're diving into tragedy of tragedies, Aeschylus' Agamemnon... Perhaps more appropriately called, The Clytemnestra Show. Pre-order...
Conversations: Why is Being 'Complicated' a Bad Thing? Translating Homer w/ Emily Wilson
Liv and Michaela speak with THE Emily Wilson about her new book, Crossing Wine Dark Seas, and the wide, wondrous world of translating Homer today. Pre...
All Day Every Day, Therapist, Mother, Maid; a History of Women’s Labour
A (brief) history of women's labour, from myth to etymology to the modern mess. Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retell...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 4
Liv reads Book 4 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and...
Ancient History 101 by Alexandra Sills, a Memory Collective Podcast
This is an episode of the brand new ancient history podcast, Ancient History 101, by Alexandra Sills! Featuring Owen Rees who introduces the ancient G...
Conversations: Get In the Dragon Wagon, We’re Going Shopping, Women in Euripides w/ Dr. Alecto Hardwick
This week Liv speaks with Dr. Alecto Hardwick about women in Euripides! Okay well it started with all about Medea and then it quickly falls into Eurip...
BONUS RE-AIR Beloved of Aphrodite, the Lives & Legacies of Ancient Greek Sex Workers
This episode originally aired in March 2024. A little look into the lives of ancient Greek sex workers, particularly two Hetairai, Phryne and Rhodopis...
BONUS RE-AIR Conversations: The Missing Women of Euripides, Fragments w/ Dr Melissa Funke
Liv speaks with Dr Melissa Funke about gender and the women in Euripides' fragmentary works. Find more from Melissa at the Peopling the Past project....
The Man, the Myth, the Monstrous Legend... Retelling the Odyssey for a Modern Odyssey
IT'S FINALLY TIME! Liv talks about writing her Odyssey retelling, reads from it, and answers a listener question about translation and retelling. Pre-...
BONUS RE-AIR: High Priestess of Ur, the World’s First Author, Enheduanna
This episode originally aired in March 2024. The first recorded author in all of human history was a woman, a high priestess, her name was Enheduanna....
BONUS RE-AIR Conversations: Othering Women in the Origins of Western Medicine w/ Dr Christie Vogler (Parts 1 and 2
TW! Horrors of Women's/Female Health. Liv speaks with Dr Christie Vogler about the long and storied and utterly infuriating ancient history of women's...
Conversations: The Real Gauls of Classical Times with Dr. Antone Minard
This week Liv and Michaela speak with Dr. Antone Minard about the Gauls and the Gaulish language. Lots of fun linguistic facts to be found inside this...
RE-AIR: Not With a Bang, but a Whimper, the Collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean
This episode originally aired in April 2024 during our series on the Bronze Age Collapse. A brief look at the causes behind the societal collapse of t...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Part 2
Liv reads Book 3 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and...
Men Fear What They Cannot Command or Control, the Husband-Slaying Lemnian Women
Just a casual, not at all timely, look at the myth of women taking revenge on their abusers and oppressors. For funsies. Check out the next group trip...
Conversations: Even Women Had Names, Athenian Women (Without Husbands) w/ Katherine Backler
Liv speaks with expert Katherine Backler about all the lives and lore of the very REAL women of ancient Athens, from the the beautifully mundane to th...
Hey Guys, There’s Mice in this One!! (Herodotus The Histories Book 2, Part 4)
We are finally at the end of book 2 of Herodotus' Histories!! Yaayy!! Go us, it took us a bit, but it was such a fun little journey full of insanity a...
Conversations: Weave, Baby, Weave, Women’s Work in Ancient Sumeria with Alex Wells
Liv and Michaela sit down with past episode guest Alex Wells, host of The Drumbeat Forever After podcast, all about women and their work in ancient Su...
RE-AIR: Conversations: But How Many Bears Is It? Sharks, Whales, and Sea Monsters in Greek Mythology w/ Ryan Denson
Hermes here! Sorry for the re-air but unfortunately life got in the way. Today we will go back in time to 2022 with this episode with Dr. Ryan Denson...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey, Part 1 (This time, a Modern Translation!)
Liv reads Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and Vancouver...
From Mummification to the Building of the Pyramids (Herodotus The Histories Book 2, Part 3)
We continue on in our Egyptian adventures with Book 2 of Herodotus' Histories! We finish up looking at the customs of the Egyptians, and start with th...
Conversations: No Culture is a Vacuum, the Winding World of Ancient Jewish Travel Narratives w/ Dr Gillian Glass
Liv speaks with Dr Gillian Glass about the history of ancient Jewish travel narratives and the beautiful multiplicity of the ancient world. Learn more...
Oy With the Cows Already (Herodotus The Histories Book 2, Part 2)
Herodotus continues on his narrative about Egypt talking now about the Egyptian people, priesthoods, oracles, and then animals. It's certainly a fasci...
RE-AIR: Conversations: There’s Much to Do, and Many Unknowns On the Horizon… Herodotus in Egypt w/ Dr Kate Minniti
This episode originally aired in May 2022. Herodotus was an incredibly influential ancient figure... And he also wrote a lot of bizarre stuff. Liv is...
On the Nature of the Nile River (Herodotus The Histories Bk 2, Part 1)
We are back to Herodotus folks, and here we enter the wonderful work of Egypt as understood by him. How's he gonna do? Who knows, we shall find out. E...
Conversations: Celebrating Imperial Violence, Roman Triumphs and Triumphal Arches w/ the Partial Historians
Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at pa...
RE-AIR: Conversations: A Long and Storied History of Sparta, Modern Misuse & Misconception w/ Stephen Hodkinson
This episode originally aired as part of the Spartan Mirage series, in January 2023. It's time we listen and learn (again). Liv speaks with Stephen Ho...
Conversations: The Only Ones Who Benefit from War Are the Bad Guys w/ Joshua Cannon
Liv speaks with classicist, author, and veteran, Joshua Cannon about the Iliad, warfare in the ancient Mediterranean, and how War is Bad, Actually. Th...
Conversations: White Ain't Right, How White Supremacy Uses Classics to Defend Bigotry with Curtis Dozier
Liv speaks with classicist Curtis Dozier about the troubling (and tragically unsurprising) connections between the world's worst people (white suprema...
Helen, the King Maker; Lucifer the Morningstar; Enyo, the Bloody... A New Years Q&A
Liv answers all your burning questions (and some notably less urgent as well!). Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get a...
RE-AIR: Slow But Steady Wins the Race, Ancient Aesop & His Fables
This episode originally aired in January 2023. Not at all a children's author... We're talking ancient Aesop and his oh so famous fables.Submit your q...
RE-AIR: Conversations: How Women Became Poets, Gender History in Greek Literature w/ Emily Hauser
This episode originally aired in November 2024. Liv speaks with author Emily Hauser about her book How Women Became Poets. They look at women in Greek...
Battle of the Bad B*tches: Helen and Clytemnestra
Liv and Michaela come together for the third (?) annual Battle of the Bas--no wait that's actually the Battle of the Bad B*tches. Helen and Clytemnest...
Liv Reads Statius: The Thebaid (Final)
Liv reads the final book of Statius' Thebaid, translated by JH Mozley. The brothers of Thebes, Eteocles and Polynices, are dead. Their wives and siste...
Now for Cleopatra Senior!: Revisiting The Very Real Cleopatra VII with The Partial Historians
On Friday we looked at Cleopatra Selene (aka Cleopatra Jr, Cleopatra VIII), so it's only fitting to revisit an old (and very fun!) episode with the am...