Conversations: Not the Fun Kind of Myths, De-Mystifying Spartan Tradition w/ Owen Rees

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Owen Rees, a professor and founder of Bad Ancient, about ancient Sparta, that Mirage, and how Sparta is viewed today by some of the most dangerous groups around. Follow Owen and Bad Ancient on Twitter and find some fascinating Bad Ancient articles on Sparta here.

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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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0:30.0	Hi, hello and welcome to another episode of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!
0:37.7	As always, I am that woman who hosts the show and quite enjoys exploring the ancient
0:41.4	world with all of you.
0:43.0	Who live?
0:44.0	And today I am here with another conversation episode in my Sparta series, yet another fascinating
0:49.7	episode where we look not only at what actually took place in ancient Sparta, but more importantly,
0:55.4	what did not take place at all.
0:58.0	I am joined today by Owen Reese, who runs the website Bad Ancient, a site dedicated to
1:02.8	exploring common questions about the ancient world and looking at what is and is definitely
1:07.8	not true about the ancient people and the rumors surrounding them.
1:12.3	As you might imagine, Sparta comes up often.
1:14.3	They have some incredible articles about misconceptions surrounding ancient Sparta and
1:17.8	the things they did, or rather, didn't do.
1:23.3	So we talk about just that.
1:25.1	We talk about the idea that the Spartans performed a very special type of eugenics with elders
1:29.8	examining newborn babies for imperfections which could get them tossed off of Mount
1:34.9	Igetto's and how that never happened.
1:37.8	We talk about modern misconceptions over things Leonidas said and how he said them, and we
1:42.9	talk about a certain group of horrifying individuals who took their love of Sparta to
1:46.5	a whole other level.
1:48.9	The absolutely fucked up and wildway these misconceptions about Sparta connect with the
1:53.1	misconceptions about Atlantis.
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