BONUS! Hermes Historia: We Yearn for the Grave (Re-air)

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hey, did you know that Michaela and Liv are running a bonus history series over on the show's Patreon?! Last year we aired a few Hermes Historia episodes before putting the rest behind the Patreon paywall. This was the inaugural Spooooky Hermes Historia episode... Michaela shares a brief history of ancient Greek funerary practices. Because Spooky Season. Find ad-free episodes, Hermes Historia episodes, and 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: John Ferguson's Among the Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion; Maria Serena Mirto's Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age; Herodotus' The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi there. Live here, speaking from the future. If you are keen to support this podcast,
0:05.6	if you are enjoying the episodes as you find them and you want to listen ad-free, check out
0:11.4	the Oracle edition on Patreon. It didn't exist way back when these early episodes were recorded,
0:17.5	but I'm telling you about it now. You can get all 700 and counting episodes of Let's Talk About Myths Baby,
0:24.6	ad free, along with so much more at patreon.com slash mythsbaby or via the link in the podcast description.
0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening. So, Michaela and I are trying to record these next two episodes of Hermes Historia.
1:04.9	But it's been a little while we both have had a ton of stuff going on.
1:10.7	And I am trying to move across the country.
1:14.6	And then there's extenuating circumstances in my life that I'm not prepared to yet announce on Mike.
1:20.6	But basically I'm losing my whole damn mind.
1:24.1	And so this is the introduction.
1:25.9	This is Hermes Historia.
1:27.2	While we find our footing.
1:28.6	It's still free anyway until we figure out also the subscription that's coming. So keep
1:34.3	enjoying these Hermes Historia episodes. And yeah, Makila, why don't you, why don't you
1:40.5	take it away? What are we talking about today? Hi. So because it's, you know, spooky season, I had to pick spooky topics.
1:49.7	I would have been offended if you didn't.
1:53.0	I know.
1:53.5	You might have been fired.
1:54.7	That might have been the thing that did it.
1:56.6	Originally, I was going to do something else for this first one.
1:59.7	And then I decided I was going to do that next month instead. So here we are. I support this. Yeah, I know. I like the spookiness too, as you know. I hate you? No. A little bit. Just a touch. So for this first one, we're going to talk about Greek funerary practices.
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