Conversations: Powerful or Powerless, Caring or Careless? The Goddess Thetis w/ Maciej Paprocki

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Liv speaks with returning guest Dr Maciej Paprocki about the goddess Thetis, a goddess with seemingly immense but mysterious power, and a woman who has enough agency in her life that she becomes tragically unique. Learn more about the Staying Power of Thetis.

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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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0:42.7	Hi, listener. I am just here at the top to put a warning. I've been recording some introductions
0:50.2	with the guests on the line, so we'll jump right into that in a second. But just a heads up,
0:55.5	this episode, while being incredibly positive and really insightful into an ancient goddess,
1:04.2	does feature pretty heavily in an assault narrative that is, I think, a particularly egregious case of assault, of a woman
1:15.6	in mythology, but it is also simultaneously a woman who then gets to say, fuck you, to the to the man. Uh, and so I think it's, it's worth it.
1:31.3	If you could manage, we definitely don't go, um, too graphic. It's still very mythology. But I wanted
1:36.8	to warn you all right at the top.
2:05.6	Yeah. Hello, this is Let's Talk About Mitz, baby.
2:12.0	And I am your host, Liv, here recording introductions with the guest in front of me and trying not to be weird about it. And I am here today with returning guest, Dr. Matchy Praproski,
2:17.1	and I'm so excited for this conversation.
2:19.8	You and I had a two-part conversation last time because I am so obsessed with the way you study mythology.
2:28.0	So I'm so excited to talk to you today about Thadus.
2:31.5	Thank you.
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