Some characters only show up in one or two remaining stories - but that doesn’t make them any less important! Collected here are some of the heroines that have appeared in only a few places and that Liv hopes to continue to cover!
Europa
05.20 Europa & Minos’ Bull Dynasty, the Marathonian Bull Has Seen Some Sh**
The mythological history of Minoan Crete's obsession with bulls is dark and wildly, terribly entertaining. Bulls, baby, bulls.
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05.19 Mini Myth: Zodiac Constellations, Europa, Zeus, & His Bulls*** (Taurus)
Zodiac constellations: there are two versions, both are weird and have bulls involved.
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Calliope is Over Your Sh*t, the Women of the Trojan War with Natalie Haynes
Liv speaks with author and classicist Natalie Haynes about the women of the Trojan War and Pandora. Natalie's latest books are A Thousand Ships, recently published in North America and Pandora's Jar, available in the UK.
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Pandora
Pandora, the Beautiful Evil & the Misogyny of Her "Curiosity"
Today the story of Pandora's Box barely resembles the ancient story of a woman and a jar. It's been mistranslated, misunderstood, and misrepresented beyond comprehension. When a modern version becomes more misogynist than Hesiod talking Pandora, you know it's gone much too far.
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Clytemnestra
Conversations: I Promise We’re Not Defending Murder, Clytemnestra with Aimee Hinds
Liv speaks with Aimee Hinds about the intricacies of Clytemnestra's story and how storytellers and reception over millennia has affected the understanding of this powerful Spartan woman.
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Enter Clytemnestra, Taking No Sh*t (Iphigenia at Aulis Part 2)
The Greeks weren't able to sail for Troy but for the sacrifice of Agamemnon's eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Part two of Euripides's tragedy retelling Iphigenia's fate.
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Death is Bad, the Anger of Clytemnestra & the Strength of Iphigenia (Iphigenia at Aulis Part 3)
The Greeks weren't able to sail for Troy but for the sacrifice of Agamemnon's eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Part three of Euripides's tragedy retelling Iphigenia's fate.
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Harmonia
Daughter of Gods Meets Phoenician Hero, the Story of Cadmus & Harmonia (Part 1)
Revisiting Liv's favourite myth in much more detail... What happens when a hero marries a goddess? The story of Cadmus and Harmonia, the mysterious and yet deeply important couple and the origins of their family's curse.
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That is One Cursed Necklace! The Deadly Dynasty of Cadmus & Harmonia (Part 2)
How does a curse like theirs filter down the generations? The fate of the family of Cadmus and Harmonia, and their own...
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Arachne
Arachne Weaves Her Tragedy & The Cursed Legacy of Thebes
First, Liv reads a selection from the new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Stephanie McCarter, because it's ARACHNE and it's AMAZING. Then, the cursed legacy of Thebes, the stories of Ino and Semele.
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