Conversations: Who's This "Sophocles" Everyone's Talking About? Sophoclean Tragedy w/ Dr. Amy Pistone

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Amy Pistone Greek Tragedy, specifically: Sophocles and why he's every bit as good as Euripides, maybe... better? The plays referened are Sophocles' The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Tyrannos, Ajax, and Philoctetes and Euripides Medea, Bacchae, and Orestes.

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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1:41.7	Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths, baby! And I am your host, Liv, you know, that woman who's
1:50.1	always yelling at you for something or other. And I am back here today with yet another
1:57.2	incredible conversation episode. Today's episode is with Dr. Amy Pistone, a woman I have been
2:04.2	following on Twitter for a long time and could not be more excited to finally have her on the show,
2:10.5	talking Greek tragedy. Amy studies Greek tragedy and women amongst, I'm sure, so many other things.
2:17.8	But those are the main reasons I wanted her to come on the show and talk and talk and talk.
2:22.7	It is utterly my favorite thing to just sit down. We have a conversation with these incredible
2:27.9	academics and just have them just speak for as long as humanly possible. It is the best.
2:33.6	And today's episode started out about Greek tragedy in general, but when I found out that Amy
2:41.3	really prefers Sophocles, I was so ready for somebody to give me the argument for Sophocles.
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