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

Conversations: Fulvia, the Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome w/ Dr Jane Draycott

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with historian Dr Jane Draycott about Fulvia of ancient Rome, a woman at the centre of the fall of the Roman Republic... Unsurprisingly the conversation became something wider, looking at ancient women more broadly. Plus, we rant about the patriarchy, because it deserves it. Find more about Jane's new book Fulvia: the Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome and Jane's work more broadly. For reference, this episode was recorded at the end of April 2025.

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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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Here to share another conversation episode.

1:18.6

I'm so thrilled to have these episodes.

1:20.6

As you all know, I've had to pull back a little bit on the scripted episodes just so that I have

1:25.3

time to work on this Odyssey, retelling along with

1:28.5

the other book that I've been trying to finish for well over a year now and the collective

1:33.5

and, you know, just countless other things as I try to build out my career outside of relying

1:40.3

on American advertising dollars.

1:51.6

But thankfully, one of the types of episodes that I do not have to pull back on, even in the slightest, are these conversations because I absolutely, I mean, I fucking love these conversations.

1:57.1

I love having these experts come in and share their knowledge with me, their

2:03.1

passion. It is so much fun to record. It's so much easier than writing a 5,000 word script. So I am

2:09.7

just so grateful to have access to all of these people and all of the incredible work that they're

2:14.6

doing. And today's episode, well, I mean, it fits so well. I mean,

2:21.1

with everything I just said. But also, this is an expert, an author, a scholar in the field who I have

2:29.9

been wanting to get on the show for ages. She wrote a book a few years back called Cleopatra's

2:35.8

daughter, which was about, if you can believe it, Cleopatra's daughter, Cleopatra Celine, and she'll

2:41.7

probably come back on my show to talk about her in the future. But what finally pushed me to say,

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