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1. vor 2 Tagen

   RE-AIR Conversations: When the Network Went Down, the Bronze Age Collapse w/ Dr Eric H Cline

   This episode originally aired in April 2024 as part of our Bronze Age Collapse episode series. Liv is joined by Dr Eric H Cline to look at what we know of the end of the Bronze Age, what did and did not contribute to its collapse, and so mu
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2. vor 5 Tagen

   Conversations: What Does it Mean To Be Dead? The Homeric Afterlife w/ Bernie Norman

   Liv speaks with Dr Bertie Norman about all things ghosts, shades, and eidolons in the Homeric versions of the Underworld. Ghosts of Patroclus, shades of prophets and mothers, and so much more. AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling.
   1 h 37
3. 27. Okt.

   Beware the Monstrous Woman, When the Feminine Turns Threatening

   Happy Spooky Season, here are some 'monstrous' women, but what is 'monstrosity' anyway? AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://geni.us/TheOdysseyBook) Submit your question for the next Q&A via email (http://mythsbaby.com/q
   33 min
4. 26. Okt.

   YOU ARE ODYSSEUS Episode 10: Games and Glories

   YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - the immersive, interactive audiobook podcast. EPISODE 10: Games and Glories The Phaeacians put on Games in your honour, and it's time to pay them back... with your name... This episode covers Book 8, the Phaeacian Games p
   45 min
5. 23. Okt.

   RE-AIR Conversations: The Monstrously Volcanic Breath of the Chimera, Monster Myths w/ Jasmine Elmer

   Liv speaks with fellow Classics podcaster Jasmine Elmer (listen to Jasmine's new show, 2026 edition!, Myth Understood wherever you're listening to LTAMB!) about all things monstrous, but particularly... Volcanic monsters and myths of Greece
   1 h 18
6. 20. Okt.

   SPOOKY RE-AIR: The Lycanthropic Tale of Lycaon & Other Ghosts & Werewolves

   This episode originally aired in October 2020, but it's good enough to play again! It's officially Spooky Season! Ancient werewolves, ghosts, and haunted houses... AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://geni.us/TheOdysseyB
   27 min
7. 19. Okt.

   YOU ARE ODYSSEUS Episode 1: The Beginning

   YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - the immersive, interactive audiobook podcast. EPISODE 1: The Beginning The War at Troy is over. What will you do now? CW: implied references to physical and s*xual abuse, as per historical context and mythology and the or
   32 min
8. 16. Okt.

   Conversations: Now THAT is What I Call a Curse! Ancient Curse Tablets w/ Dr Charlotte Spence

   Happy Spoooooky Season! Today Dr Charlotte Spence joins Liv to talk about the weird, wacky, and deeeeeeeply f---ed up tradition of ancient curse tablets... (Many awkward and icky laughs are had!) AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelli
   1 h 54
9. 13. Okt.

   When Women Fight Back, the Daring Danaides Who Refused to Submit

   It's time for a very spoooooky episode... at least, it's spooky if you're a predatory man! This is the story of the 50 young women (girls, really) who protected themselves when necessary. AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (htt
   41 min
10. 9. Okt.

    RE-AIR Conversations: Powerful or Powerless, Caring or Careless? The Goddess Thetis w/ Maciej Paprocki

    A timely revisiting of this ICONIC conversation about the wondrous goddess Thetis with one of Liv's favourite myth experts! This episode originally aired in March 2025. Liv speaks with returning guest Dr Maciej Paprocki about the goddess Th
    1 h 56
11. 6. Okt.

    Remnants of Rage, the Forced Marriage of Thetis, and the Fateful Judgement of Paris

    The great goddess Thetis, the crimes of men, and the origins of the Trojan War. AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://geni.us/TheOdysseyBook) Submit your question for the next Q&A via email (http://mythsbaby.com/questions
    53 min
12. 2. Okt.

    Camp Half-Blood Crossover! Liv and Genn of AHFG Chat with Rick Riordan and Annabelle Oh

    That's right, you read it correctly. It's only taken 9.25 years but Liv has listened to your pleas and is finally here with not just ANY Percy Jackson Universe content... No, she teamed up with Genn McMenemy of Ancient History Fangirl to in
    29 min
13. 29. Sept.

    Let’s Marry Helen! Mythmaking Marriage in Lacedaemon

    We're going back to the beginning... Before we start the next reading series, the Johnston translation of Homer's Iliad, we're going back to basics: How did Helen end up the face was blamed for launching a thousand ships? AVAILABLE NOW! The
    38 min
14. 25. Sept.

    RE-AIR Conversations: Better Off With Bears, Artemis & Goddess Worship w/ Dr Carla Ionescu

    This episode originally aired in March 2024. Liv speaks with "The Artemis Expert" Dr Carla Ionescu, about Artemis, bears, goddess worship, and so much more (because Liv has ADHD, you know the drill). Find Carla on Instagram (https://www.ins
    1 h 32
15. 22. Sept.

    Meticulous Metis, Audacious Odysseus, and the Age Old Infamy of the Orphics... A Q&A Episode

    Liv is back answers listener questions about all things myth... which, right now, involves primarily questions related to the Odyssey and you know who isn't complaining? LIV! AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://geni.us/
    1 h 21
16. 18. Sept.

    Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 23 & 24

    Liv reads the final two books of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. It's time for dramatic reunions (of the living and the dead!), more unnecessary lies, and wrapping things up in a tidy little bow. This modern translation is used
    1 h 09
17. 15. Sept.

    And That’s That (Herodotus The Histories Bk 3, Pt. 4)

    And that's how book 3 of Herodotus' Histories ends, not with a bang but with an extra duplicitous siege of Babylon. Michaela here saying goodbye to all you wonderful listeners as this is my last episode on LTAMB. But she is creating her own
    34 min
18. 11. Sept.

    SPECIAL: Ancient History Fangirl // Why are Techbro Oligarchs so Obsessed with Augustus?

    This is an episode of Ancient History Fangirl (https://www.ancienthistoryfangirl.com/). Have you noticed that our tech overlords cannot be normal about the Roman Empire? Elon Musk has approximately 14 known children, which he refers to as h
    1 h 02
19. 8. Sept.

    Some More Herodotean Madness (Herodotus Bk. 3, pt. 3)

    More Herodotus because why not at the end of the day? AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://geni.us/TheOdysseyBook) Submit your question for the next Q&A via email (http://mythsbaby.com/questions) or a voice note (https:/
    39 min
20. 4. Sept.

    Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 22

    Liv reads Book 22 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This entire book is basically just a massacre... thanks Odysseus! This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and Vancouver Island Unive
    1 h 13
21. 3. Sept.

    Back To School Replay: A Most Sophoclean Prophecy, Women & Wordplay in Sophocles’ Trachiniae w/ Amy Pistone

    This episode originally aired in March 2022. Liv speaks with returning guest Amy Pistone who specializing in Sophoclean tragedy. Amy shares some of the complexities hidden within the Trachiniae and they discuss Sophoclean prophecies (ie., t
    1 h 19
22. 3. Sept.

    Back To School Replay: When Poisoned Shirts Have Got You Down, Deianeira & the Women of Trachis (Heracles & Sophocles’ Trachiniae Part 3)

    This episode originally aired in March 2022. In the finale of the Trachiniae series, Deianeira deals with what she has inadvertently done, and Heracles finally returns to Trachis. AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (https://gen
    45 min
23. 2. Sept.

    Back To School Replay: Deianeira, Iole, & the Violence of Heracles’ Love (Hercules & Sophocles’ Trachiniae Part 2)

    This episode originally aired in March 2022. Continuing on with Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Deianeira learns the truth of where Heracles has been all this time, and what he's been doing. Spoilers: it's not good. AVAILABLE NOW! The Odyssey:
    40 min
24. 1. Sept.

    Back To School Replay: A Husband Like Heracles (Hercules), the Tragedy of Deianeira (Sophocles’ Trachiniae Part 1)

    This episode originally aired in March 2022. Heracles is a complicated fellow... Or maybe it's not so complicated. Sophocles' Trachiniae, the Women of Trachis, looks at the life, and tragedy, of Heracles' last mortal wife, Deianeira. AVAILA
    32 min
25. 28. Aug.

    Conversations: Picking Apart Truth from Satire in Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess w/ Dr Gillian Glass

    Liv speaks with returning guest Dr Gillian Glass, and this one is for the hell of it (ie., not at all Gillian's specialty). Learn more about Gillian's work here (https://www.au.dk/en/rgglass@cas.au.dk), and the ANINAN project here (https://
    2 h 01
26. 25. Aug.

    A Tale of Three Tyrants (Herodotus Bk 3, Part 2)

    We now explore the madness of Cambyses, the Samian tyrant Polykrates, and good old Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. It's a tyrant heavy episode y'all but perhaps Herodotus is asking us to consider power and how it affects people? That does
    40 min
27. 21. Aug.

    Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 20 and 21

    Liv reads Books 20 and 21 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. It's time for Odysseus and Penelope to have a little chat, before things really kick off. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Joh
    1 h 02
28. 19. Aug.

    Wine Can Make You Live Forever, My Mother Was Right! (Herodotus Bk 3, Part 1)

    Oh the wonders of Herodotus and his histories! We are back into book three of Herodotus' Histories and getting to experience the wonders of Cambyses doing his own invasions and attacks against others. How fun! In this episode there's wacky
    33 min
29. 14. Aug.

    Conversations: The Wonders of the Ancient and Mythical Mediterranean, More Sea Monsters w/ Dr Ryan Denson

    Everyone's favourite Sea Monster Guy, Dr Ryan Denson, is back for more! Liv and Ryan talk all things ancient and mythical sea monsters, Liv's lifelong love of sharks, and the overall WONDER of sea creatures, real, mythical, or otherwise. Pr
    1 h 48
30. 11. Aug.

    Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 19

    Liv reads Book 19 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. It's time for Odysseus and Penelope to have a little chat, before things really kick off. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston an
    1 h 03

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