080 Hekate and Magic
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
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🗓️ 3 September 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the myths, iconography, and cultic worship of Hekate, the goddess associated with magic, sorcery, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, crossroads, entrance-ways, ghosts, and necromancy; including her connections and/or syncretizations with Iphigenia, Artemis, Selene, the Erinyes (also known as the Furies), the Keres, the Semnai Theai, Empousa, Lamia, Kirke, and Medeia; and the "monstrous craft" of magikos in ancient Greece, including curse tablets, binding spells, love spells, potions, and amulets
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jenny, you know in ancient Rome, the Julian-Claudean family, the one the Caesars are from, |
| 0:05.0 | they were like really huge on signs, importance, and seeing the future. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh yeah, tell me more. |
| 0:10.0 | So the Emperor Tiberius was looking to hire a new astrologer and he brought in this new guy named |
| 0:14.8 | Vrasilis and he said to Thrasilis, hey, I want you to cast your own astrological chart and tell me what the future holds for you. |
| 0:22.4 | What his chart said was that Tiberius was planning |
| 0:24.7 | to throw him off a cliff. |
| 0:25.8 | I feel like that's a sign to not take that job. |
| 0:28.2 | So was he actually planning to throw Thrasyllus off a cliff? |
| 0:30.9 | He was. |
| 0:31.9 | But Tiberius changed his mind and they started a beautiful partnership of future predicting. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jenny Williamson. And I'm Jen McManumee. |
| 0:40.0 | We have a podcast called Ancient History Fan Girl. It's true stories and tall tales from the ancient |
| 0:44.8 | world where we teach you how to survive an ancient siege, chart the rise and fall of |
| 0:49.1 | Rome's Praetorian card, and follow in the trail of the mighty elephant of war. |
| 0:53.0 | And we also have an epic arc coming up on the Julian Claudians, |
| 0:57.0 | the ancient world's real life Stark family. |
| 1:00.0 | So check out ancienthistory |
| 1:01.0 | fangirl.com or find us wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:04.6 | After you listen to The History of Ancient Greece podcast, |
| 1:07.7 | of course, because it is also phenomenally awesome. Awesome. The The Hello I'm Ryan Stitt, and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece. |
| 1:57.0 | Episode 80, Hecatee, and Magic. |
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