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Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I am that host of yours live.

I am here with another conversation episode.

This is one with Dr. Ellie McEn Roberts, author of Heroines of Olympus,

which I highly recommend you pick up.

I mean, I think the name says it all, but it is a book about the women of Greek mythology.

Ellie is also doing some specialized research in Persephone and Hades,

and her PhD in Underworld Gods, so she was the absolute perfect person to talk about Persephone

and the different versions of her and interpretations of her.

I learned so much in this episode.

I mean, I know I say that a lot, but in this case,

Ellie talks about a version of Persephone from the south of Italy,

and all these incredibly cool things that very real women did.

Kind of in her name, I'm going to let Ellie take it from here,

but honestly, I can't express how fascinating it was,

learning about real people in Greece,

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