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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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Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 12 & 13
Liv reads Book 12 and 13 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. A daring escape from Scylla and Charybdis (twice!) and so much more... He's...
Odysseus Beyond the Odyssey, the Ancient Art of Ret-Conning and Unbelievable Things
Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. LONDON! Come to my event at Waterstones on Thursday, June 11!! Submit your...
UPDATE: Technology Failed Me
This is an update where Liv explains how technology failed her, and you all, and why the next Odyssey reading will be slightly delayed. UGH!!!! Pre-o...
Zeus, Io, and the Art of Founding Entire Civilizations Based on Women’s Trauma
In the Odyssey, Hermes is called the "Slayer of Argus"... but why? AND more importantly: Who is Io and why is her story both foundational and horrifyi...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 11
No Odyssey is complete without a journey to the realm of the dead... Liv reads Book 11 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern tra...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 10
Winds, giants, and witches, oh my!... Liv reads Book 10 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense g...
Conversations: Giving a Voice to a Lost Daughter of Sparta with Felicia Day
Liv and Michaela sit down to speak with Felicia Day all about her new graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta! We had lots of fun talking fragments...
An Interbellum Period That is Just as Confusing as You’d Expect (Hellenistic Period and the Wars of the Diadochi)
Today we are looking through the year 318/17 BCE, the interbellum year between the first and second Wars of the Diadochi. New alliances are made, peop...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 8 and 9
Odysseus' story finally begins... Liv reads Books 8 and 9 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense...
Just a Teenage Girl Bullying a Couple of Grown A** Men (Hellenistic Period and the Wars of the Diadochi)
Today we are finishing up the First War of the Diadochi and getting on with Hellenistic business.
Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The...
A Very Odyssean Conversation, A Modern Retelling; You Are Odysseus; and The Other One
Join Liv and Laura Jenkinson Brown of Greek Myth Comix and You Are Odysseus to chat about each of their experiences retelling the Odyssey in distinct...
RE-AIR: Fragments of an Ethiopian King, Memnon & the African Continent in Greek Myth
The ancient Greeks knew incredible warriors when they saw them. The African continent featured often in Greek myth, Egypt as well as regions typically...
Conversations: Blood-Sweat Horses and Empire, Ancient Greece and China w/ Lee Moore
This week Liv and Michaela sit down to talk with Lee Moore of the Chinese Literature Podcast all about the time Ancient China may have met Ancient Gre...
RE-AIR: Why Did Clytemnestra Kill Cassandra, Another Q&A
This episode originally aired in February 2025; the question about Clytemnestra and Cassandra is so relevant to the latest series on Aeschylus' Agamem...
The King is Broken, Battered, and Bloody… Long Live the Queen! (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part 4)
The king is dead and the queen killed him; Clytemnestra is ready to bask in the glory of her accomplishments... and introduce the man who helped her,...
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 6 & 7
Liv reads Books and 7 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnsto...
Kassandra, the Prophetess on the Killing Floor… (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part 3)
Clytemnestra's fury gives way to Kassandra's prophesies, Agamemnon might as well not even speak... Just how we like it. Things are about to get bloody...
Conversations: Will Theseus Get What’s Coming to Him? Minos with Kacper Szymczak
This time Michaela comes on the show for her first solo conversation episode with Kacper Szymczak the Creative Director of Artificer Games. We had lot...
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...