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Thanks and happy listening. Hi, hello, welcome.

This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, and I am your host, Liv.

And today, I'm here with another conversation episode in our ongoing series on

Euripides, and every correct person's favorite playwright. And fortunately, you know, if I was

going to talk about Euripides for an entire month's worth of episodes,

I was also going to speak with all of the Euripides obsessed, I mean, maybe I'm projecting,

but Euripides obsessed scholars that I could find.

And fortunately, a couple of them are returning guests, people that you have heard before, and I am very excited

to say that today's episode is one of those. I spoke with Dr. Melissa Funky, who is just a joyfully

lovely person. She and I have met a couple of times at different events, and it's just, oh my gosh,

Melissa is so much fun. You might remember her from our episode last year on Frini, the, oh, my God, the incredible

heteri from ancient Athens, who basically made an entire epic career for herself, including,

like, ridiculously long-lasting fame, you know, like 2,500 years of long-lasting fame.

And Melissa wrote a book about Franey back then and so came on the show.

But today, today I actually have a conversation with Melissa that has been in the works forever.

Like I think probably since she and I met in person, which was like a good

year and a half ago now, because at some point, Melissa mentioned how she studies or did her

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