CLXVII: Daughter of Gods Meets Phoenician Hero, the Story of Cadmus & Harmonia (Part 1)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Revisiting Liv's favourite myth in much more detail... What happens when a hero marries a goddess? The story of Cadmus and Harmonia, the mysterious and yet deeply important couple and the origins of their family's curse.

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: Theoi.com, entries on Harmonia, Athena's Favour (Cadmus), and Ares' Wrath (Cadmus); Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz.

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1:35.0	Oh hi, welcome. This is Let's Talk About Myths Baby.
1:42.0	And I am that host of yours, the one with the opinions live.
1:48.0	Now today I am here with a very special episode, special for purely selfish reasons because these are simply the people who really spurred my love of mythology, who transformed me into what you see today.
2:03.0	These characters gave you the podcast, basically discovering them inspired almost everything about my life as it currently is, including past careers.
2:13.0	Because of all of this, I will never, ever let them go.
2:18.0	Cadmous and Harmonia.
2:21.0	But first, another periodic warning. All of the episodes you're listening to in the month of May and June 2 and actually July have been pre-written and pre-recorded by me in the month of April.
2:34.0	Because I will be in Greece and beyond, wandering and exploring, getting more knowledge to share with all of you when I get back, and to share on social media for that matter.
2:44.0	Now follow me on Instagram for lots of pictures of new islands and ruins. I might even record something from over there and share it with you.
2:52.0	And well, I'm going to be working on another draft of my novel about, well, Cadmous and Harmonia. Hence, these episodes.
3:04.0	Cadmous and Harmonia fascinate me in so many ways. And I wanted to get some motivation for myself to work on this novel, so I thought, what better characters to revisit now for the podcast?
3:16.0	I told you their story so, so very briefly and all the way at the earliest days of the podcast, like long before I was able to research the way I do now, before I understood the intricacies of sourcing and the fragmentary nature of these stories.
3:29.0	Before I had basically all of the knowledge that I have now, and oh, how I love the knowledge that I have now.
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