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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

A Long & Storied (Mythical) Tale of Tyranny, Revisiting Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This three part series originally aired in 2021. Prometheus gave humanity fire, but he paid the price. Prometheus is brought to his punishment and meets the chorus of Oceanids. The Prometheus Bound is an examination of tyranny and the rule of Zeus, king of the gods. Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: The Prometheus Bound (maybe) by Aeschylus: translations by Herbert Weir Smyth, James Romm, and George Theodoridis. All quotations from the Weir Smyth unless otherwise noted. Special thanks to Ash Strain for their help researching this episode! Follow Ash on Twitter: @ashstrain_.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.


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Now that hits the spot. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, and I am your host, Live, here today with a

1:14.9

voice that sounds weird, unless I'm completely mistaken in listening to myself.

1:21.0

So, today I'm going to be totally up front with you guys. I had every intention of having a

1:27.3

Liv reads the Thebad episode for today.

1:31.3

I was going to record it yesterday and then, well, it turns out the Odyssey is taken over my

1:36.9

entire life. I've been so caught up in working on the initial bits of this children's retelling of the Odyssey. And quite frankly,

1:46.2

I am so excited about it that it, I've kind of let it take things over. And so that alongside

1:54.8

trying to build this collective and bring in new shows and figure out what on earth we're all

2:00.8

doing. And well, I didn't have time.

2:04.4

And if I'm going deeper into this explanation, I was then going to do it really early in the

2:10.4

morning and just like first thing when I woke up. And then a thunderstorm hit last night

2:16.9

that kept me awake like the whole night.

2:21.3

And so I woke up this morning and I was like, you know, I could like try my best to read

2:25.9

something that is honestly tough, even at the best of times because I'm always translating

2:31.9

words like thy and thou for like in the moment so that it

2:36.3

doesn't sound wild to you. And I was like, or, or I could take that absolutely incredible and

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