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Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths baby, and I am your host, Liv, here with another very special conversation episode. This one, God, okay, number one, I am recording this introduction before I actually

record the conversation, and that's probably pretty important for what's going on. But what I'm so

excited to record this conversation because I am revisiting almost an exact same kind of

conversation, basically the same topic and the same guest from one of my very earliest

conversation episodes. I'm speaking with Emma Polly, who for years now has

been working on and building out this translation of Euripides' back-eye, so, you know, surprise,

surprise, I'm fucking obsessed. But so specifically, a reading and a translation of Backeye, an interpretation of

Backeye with heavily non-binary overtones, with generally gender queer overtones. Obviously

Dionysus always has these really queer overtones, but a direct kind of

translation that plays with gender and pronouns and that kind of thing in that way is pretty

innovative and so interesting. And it's, it's innovative in this way where it's like, duh.

Like, of course, Dionysus has all of these elements.

And Emma and I spoke a couple years ago now.

Like I said, I think, God, I think they were like my maybe fifth first conversation,

somewhere in that realm, just so long ago.

And in this way where it's, it's one of my most memorable conversations. And yet, you know,

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