Conversations: From Mythical to Curative to Poisonous, Mythic Plants w/ Ellen Zachos
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Liv and Michaela chat with author and plant and foraging expert Ellen Zachos about all things myth and plant! From mythical plants like moly to which poisonous Hemlock killed Socrates, we're talking all things PLANTS! Find Mythic Plants wherever you get your books and learn more from Ellen here. Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby
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.
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| 0:34.1 | Thanks and happy listening. |
| 1:16.0 | Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, and I am your host, Liv, here with a very quick introduction on my terrible microphone, because sometimes in a pinch. |
| 1:21.4 | Today's episode is a really fun conversation that Michaela and I had with Ellen Zackos, who is a botanist, among other things, |
| 1:32.3 | and the author of a new book called Mythic Plants. And now I am a enormous nerd for plants. |
| 1:41.7 | And I'm always so excited for episodes like this and this was so much fun |
| 1:46.7 | we talk all about plants that may have been entirely mythical others that have natural still |
| 1:56.7 | surviving species that they could be attributed to so so many different things, and of course, |
| 2:02.9 | all the poisons of all the greatest witches of Greek mythology. |
| 2:07.7 | Happy Friday. |
| 2:32.5 | Music Conversations, from the mythical to the curative, to the poisonous, and everything in between, mythic plants with Ellen Zackos. |
| 2:49.6 | I'm obsessed with the plants in Greece very much. And I know a lot about like, you know, |
| 2:52.2 | vaguely how they fit in with the myths and the myths themselves I know very well. But the actual |
| 2:56.8 | plants is something. I mean, my phone is just littered with photos of plants in Greece to like honestly |
| 3:04.7 | an unhinged level. So I'm very excited about this. But like how you're a plant |
| 3:09.3 | person, right? Like how did you get into plants with Greek myth? Well, first of all, I want to say, |
| 3:14.4 | I am sure it is not an unhinged level. I'm sure I would approve and applaud the number of plant |
| 3:20.8 | photos on your phone. I love the plants. Yeah, I love the plants too. |
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