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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Liv speaks with Kyle Lewis Jordan about the complexities of Hephaestus, both in relation to his impairment and as a god of creation and so much else, in addition to scholarship of disability in the ancient world more broadly. In part two they focus on Hephaestus's relationship with Athena and Aphrodite, the more problematic ideas relating to him and disability today, and "modern" reception of the god (see the images we discuss here). You can follow Kyle on Twitter @HorusofNekhen and you can watch presentation he's done on Disability in Ancient Egypt: the Case of Geheset and Disability in Egyptian Myth and Literature.
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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1:03.0 | Here with part two of the first ever two part conversation episode, just because there |
1:08.4 | was so much to say, and I learned so much, and I say that every time. |
1:12.4 | But in this case, I learned two episodes worth. |
1:15.7 | So it's really saying something. |
1:17.4 | This is part two of my episode, conversation with Kyle Lewis Jordan, all about Hephaestus. |
1:24.3 | Hephaestus as a character, Hephaestus within and beyond the confines of Greek mythology, |
1:30.5 | Hephaestus and his relationship with Athena, Hephaestus and reception of Greek myth in modern, |
1:39.1 | so-called modern, you know, the last few hundred years sourcing, and then also popular |
1:44.8 | culture of today, so much about Hephaestus, all also like in and around the realm of his |
1:52.7 | impairment and disability within the Olympians and all of that. |
1:58.2 | So fascinating, I'm just so thrilled that Kyle had the time to talk to me for this long |
2:03.8 | that we got so much into these episodes that I now have this episode that came out on Tuesday, |
2:09.8 | all about Hephaestus as a character, you know, the things I had kind of missed in my |
2:16.0 | mentions of him in the past, and now, you know, I'm able to see this whole new world. |
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