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

Conversations: Beware of the Splash Zone! Gladiators in the Greek World w/ Alexandra Sills

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Alexandra Sills who studies spectacle! and, specifically: when Gladiators went to Greece... They talk mythologizing gladiatorial games, adapting things (splash zone!) and even, the evidence for women fighting in games. Read more from Alexandra at Bad Ancient and Working Classicists. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

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.

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0:00.0

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0:15.4

okay, they're not there.

0:18.1

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0:23.6

a mother accused of murder.

0:25.7

I'm thinking, you know, like, what's going on?

0:27.7

Like, this is insane.

0:29.3

Like, where are my kids?

0:31.3

But despite signs that Catherine Hoggel took her tiny children one by one into the night,

0:37.3

never to come home again, she has yet to stand trial.

0:41.2

Because soon after her children went missing, she was declared incompetent to stand trial.

0:46.4

You know, when I would ask her, her engagement was, I've been invited to remain incompetent.

0:50.2

And then I would say, well, who advised you should throw you know, I can't tell you that.

0:54.1

In Maryland, if the defendant is found incompetent and can't be restored to competency,

0:58.4

their felony charges are dismissed after five years.

1:01.7

So as the clock counts down, Catherine's charges on the verge of being dismissed will

1:07.2

a grieving dad ever get justice.

1:11.6

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1:20.4

On one side were the Cowboys, a band of ranchers turned criminals who had plagued the town for years.

1:26.1

On the other, four Laman, and their names are the ones you'd recognize,

1:30.0

Virgil Morgan, and Wyatt Earp, alongside their good friend Doc Holliday.

1:34.8

The resulting shootout, known today as the gunfight at the OK Corral, only lasted 30 seconds.

1:40.6

But the market left on popular imagination has held on for nearly 150 years.

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