Aphrodite | It's All Greek to Me
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We’re finally chatting about the goddess of Sex, Love, and Not Exactly Rock and Roll: Aphrodite! We talk about why our parents warned us about sea foam, and Amanda gives us a tour of the Poetry Corner!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sex, incest, castration, genitals, adultery, misogyny, ableism, mental illness, childbirth, death, murder, and war.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:10.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:15.8 | This episode 273, Aphrodite for our It's All Greek to Me series. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:21.2 | This week we are talking about the idol, the gorgeous goddess of love, sex, and not rock and roll, but she sure has a lot of rock and roll moments. |
| 0:29.1 | Aphrodite! |
| 0:30.0 | Amanda, initial thoughts and impressions of Aphrodite before we dive in and learn more about her. |
| 0:35.7 | I mean, goddess of love, right? |
| 0:40.6 | As I was falling asleep last night, I was thinking through my day ahead, and I was like, |
| 0:43.7 | oh, yeah, get to record Julia tomorrow. It's always super fun. Love that. |
| 0:45.2 | And talk about Aphrodite. |
| 0:47.9 | Ooh, yeah. Don't tell her she's not the prettiest. |
| 0:57.3 | I don't remember exactly if that's one of the stories. I think it is where someone doesn't choose Aphrodite for being the prettiest. And I, as I'm falling asleep, I'm like, that's the one thing I know about Aphrodite. Don't tell her she's not the prettiest. |
| 1:01.5 | That's true. You have to tell her she's the prettiest. Though, yeah, as we'll talk about later, even calling her the prettiest is not a guarantee that bad things won't happen. Yeah. Yeah. So, Aphrodite, beautiful, love and sex goddess from Greek mythology. And actually, Amanda, |
| 1:12.5 | before we get into this one, I've pulled quite a few either poems or quotes from various stories |
| 1:17.9 | regarding Aphrodite. Do you think that maybe we could do some poetry corner in this episode? |
| 1:24.7 | Yes, please, my favorite. For non-patri-on People Poetry Corner is a bonus episode |
| 1:30.8 | kind of style that we did occasionally on the Patreon and we probably will do in the future. |
| 1:35.9 | But it is Amanda reading me poetry and then I am like, oh, let me tell you what I think about that. |
| 1:42.4 | But instead, Amanda, I'm going to reach you the poetry and you as an English major. |
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