Conversations: Celebrating Imperial Violence, Roman Triumphs and Triumphal Arches w/ the Partial Historians

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

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. I try to provide direct warnings when there is reference to anything with overtly traumatic themes but be aware that Greek mythology regularly features assault, death, and many other potentially triggering events.

Sources (via the Partial Historians): Flower, H. 2020. ‘Augustus, Tiberius, and the End of the Roman Triumph’ Classical Antiquity 39.1, pp 1-28; Armstrong, J. (2013); Claiming Victory: The Early Roman Triumph. In J. Armstrong & A. Spalinger (Eds.), Rituals of Triumph in the Mediterranean World (Vol. 63, pp. 7–21); BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004251175_003; Beard, M. (2007). The Roman Triumph. Harvard University Press,. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674020597; Kallis, A. (2014). The Third Rome, 1922-43 : The Making of the Fascist Capital (1st ed. 2014.). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314031; Popkin, M. L. (2016). The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283; Popkin, M. L. (2016). Victory Monuments Built along the Triumphal Route during the Punic Wars: Topography, Dating, and History. In The Architecture of the Roman Triumph (pp. 187–196). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283.007; Scobie, A., & American Council of Learned Societies. (1990); Hitler’s state architecture : the impact of classical antiquity. Published for the College Art Association of America by the Pennsylvania State University Press.

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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:13.8	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about mythss, baby, and I am your host.
1:18.3	Live here with another conversation episode.
1:32.0	Now, I'm going to be honest, I mean, in my height of podcasting, I would want to just make sure I'm highlighting, you know, the important issues going on right now, but quite frankly, there are so many, and I'm so burnt out and exhausted and
1:38.1	scared that I'm not going to try, but anyway, the world is a tough place right now, and I think we all need a
1:51.5	little, I mean, levity in the form of learning about the history of Western imperialism.
2:00.6	So today I am back with the wonderful women of the partial historians,
2:06.1	one of the Memory Collective podcasts,
2:08.5	and my favorite two people to explain Roman history to me
2:13.5	so that I don't have to learn Roman history myself.
2:17.9	And we, today we are talking about the idea of Roman triumphs and how they often eventually
2:27.9	resulted in triumphal arches.
2:32.6	And what that looks like, what it's about, there's a lot of history behind
2:41.2	Western imperialism and the way it celebrates that imperialism, what that looks like, what it means.
2:51.4	And so we had, it's both entertaining and also very timely and relevant.
2:59.7	But, I mean, if there was ever a time to just keep learning this 2000 years of Western imperialism.
3:10.8	It's now.
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