Revisiting three past conversations featuring mythology based in the cultural memory of the Bronze Age... The Minotaur and Autism featuring Cora Beth Fraser, Helen of Sparta and the Kalon Kakon with Alexia Burrows Charalambidou, and Homer with

(Mostly) Archaic Myths as Cultural Memory of the Bronze Age

4 days ago 52m 50s

Revisiting past episodes featuring myths born of the cultural memory of the Bronze Age. Find the full Bronze Age playlist here. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I

Liv Reads Thucydides: Classical Greece's Mythical History

8 days ago 43m 4s

Liv reads a selection from Book 1, chapter 1 of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley. The ancient Athenian historian recounts the cultural "history" of the Bronze Age during the Classical period. Help keep

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

11 days ago 1h 33m

Liv is joined by 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 much more. Learn about the books 1177 BC and After 1177 BC, and more, here. Help keep LTAMB going by sub

Conversations: The Evidence is in the Thigh Bone, Climate and Collapse in the Bronze Age w/ Dr Flint Dibble

15 days ago 1h 44m

Liv is joined by Flint Dibble to talk all things animal bones... How climate change and food production contributed to the end of the Late Bronze Age. Check out Flint's YouTube Channel here. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon

Not With a Bang, but a Whimper, the Collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean

18 days ago 54m 57s

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

Conversations: From Homer, With Love… The Evolution of Oral Storytelling w/ Dr Joel Christensen

22 days ago 1h 33m

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

How History Becomes Mythology, Bronze Age Greece in the Wider Mediterranean

25 days ago 46m 50s

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

Conversations: The Things They Found in Tombs, Bronze Age Mycenae w/ Dr Kim Shelton

29 days ago 1h 27m

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

Under the Shadow of Agamemnon, the Real Bronze Age Mycenae

Apr 9th, 2024 49m 54s

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 my

There Once Was a Man Named Minos, the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete

Apr 5th, 2024 56m 55s

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 mo

The Bronze Age, Mythic Origins and the Real People Behind Them

Apr 2nd, 2024 43m 45s

Introducing: the Bronze Age Collapse series. Today, grounding ourselves in a world so far removed from the ancient Greece and its mythic history. Friday, we visit Crete and the Minoans. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for

Conversations: Charybdis, a Gaping, Hungry Hole; Fear of the Monstrous Woman w/ Cosi Carnegie

Mar 29th, 2024 1h 34m

Liv is joined by Cosi Carnegie to talk all things horny (boob cups! the threat of a sexual woman! all the erotic pottery you can imagine!) Follow Cosi on Instagram; read more from her; and learn more about Propylaea Productions! Help keep LTAMB

High Priestess of Ur, the World’s First Author, Enheduanna

Mar 26th, 2024 44m 50s

The first recorded author in all of human history was a woman, a high priestess, her name was Enheduanna. 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 ficti

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LTAMB: The Bronze Age Collapse Coming April 2

Mar 25th, 2024 2m 38s

Coming soon... Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!'s next big special research series is the Bronze Age Collapse. Who were the cultures thriving in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, and what caused them to collapse entirely? Episodes start April 2, 2024

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 3)

Mar 22nd, 2024 1h 15m

Liv reads Book 3 of the Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way. After the death of Penthesilea, Memnon, and the Greek Antilochus, Apollo takes his anger out on Achilles. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!This

BONUS: Selections from Conversations w/ Dr Melissa Funke and Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 17m

To accompany the most recent episode on Hetairai and sex work in ancient Greece, these are selections from my 2023 episodes with Dr Melissa Funke, on Phryne, and Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy, on foreign women in Athens. Help keep LTAMB going by subs

Beloved of Aphrodite, the Lives & Legacies of Ancient Greek Sex Workers

Mar 19th, 2024 35m 56s

A little look into the lives of ancient Greek sex workers, particularly two Hetairai, Phryne and Rhodopis, whose accomplishments achieved them 2300+ years long legacies. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!C

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

Mar 15th, 2024 1h 33m

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, Twitter, and at the Artemis Centre. Help keep LTAMB going by sub

What Makes a Monster? What if Ovid's Medusa Was Thinly Veiled Misogyny

Mar 12th, 2024 53m 55s

Ovid's version of Medusa is by far the most common, but what if it's also the most misogynist? 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 typ

On Circe's Island Anything is Possible, Queer Theory w/ Julia Perroni

Mar 8th, 2024 1h 34m

Liv speaks with returning guest Julia Perroni about a queer theory reading of Circe in Homer's Odyssey and the ways she works outside the many binaries. Find more from Julia here! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus

Parthenogenesis, Prehistoric Goddesses, and the Threat of an Independent Woman

Mar 5th, 2024 47m 46s

Goddesses doing it for themselve: parthenogenic births, goddess figurines of the Bronze Age, and theories of goddess history in Hesiod's Theogony. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!CW/TW: far too many Gree

Conversations: The Feminism of Female Rage, Demeter's Winter Harvest w/ Ioanna Papadopoulou

Mar 1st, 2024 1h 15m

Liv speaks with author Ioanna Papadapoulou about Greece in myth retellings, the goddess Demeter and her rage, and Ioanna's novel, Winter Harvest. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!CW/TW: far too many Greek

Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 2)

Feb 27th, 2024 54m 57s

Liv reads Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way. In the only surviving source retelling the end of the Trojan War, Troy reels after the Amazon Penthesilea's death. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bo

A Full Cast Reading of Emperor Julian’s Symposium of the Caesars

Feb 23rd, 2024 1h 11m

THE SYMPOSIUM OF THE CAESARS. Written by the Roman emperor Julian.Translated from the ancient Greek and directed by Jeremy Swist. Recorded by Jeremy Swist and fellow cast members. Recordings engineered by Christopher Swist at Evenfall Studio i