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

CXLIII: Adapting Greek Myth, the World of Lore Olympus w/ Rachel Smythe

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Hades and Persephone are some of the most beloved characters of Greek myth and Rachel Smythe is retelling their story (and so many others) in the incredible Webtoon (and now, book!) Lore Olympus. Rachel and Liv chat mythology and adapting myth, characters and sourcing, and so much more.

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.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.



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0:00.0

So I often struggled at school. Once when we had a maths test I looked around the room

0:14.3

and everyone was just doing it and I couldn't and I began to cry. But my teacher came over

0:19.9

and said it might look like one big problem but it's just a handful of small ones and

0:24.3

you can deal with that. I hear her voice in my head for every problem I face to this day.

0:36.8

This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew. From the writer Bohemian

0:48.1

Repsitties. I want to dance with somebody only in cinemas from Boxing Day.

1:18.1

Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby. And I am here with a very special episode. Yes,

1:35.0

it is a Tuesday and I'm here with a conversation episode. And do you know why? It's because

1:40.2

it's a conversation episode that I know so so so many of you are going to want to hear.

1:46.5

Of course, I think you should want to hear all my conversation episodes because I talk

1:49.8

with a really cool people about really dorky shit. But this one, well, there is a certain

1:56.9

web comic that started out about the same time as I started this podcast really coincidentally.

2:03.7

And one which people still to this day recommend to me and I find it so precious when

2:09.8

anyone thinks that I haven't already heard of it and it's so well meaning and lovely

2:14.6

and it's just because everyone fucking loves lore Olympus so much myself included. I absolutely

2:22.6

love Rachel's mice lore Olympus. It is a super fun web tune that is retelling the story

2:30.3

of Hades and Persephone in a way that I love and that says a lot because I'm pretty picky

2:34.5

about that couple as you all may well know. But lore Olympus is just doing it so beautifully.

2:40.3

Rachel's work is so gorgeous. The illustrations are stunning and the whole story has so much

2:46.8

depth and meaning and the way that she's using the gods and the goddesses and these characters

2:52.8

of myth is so unique and lovely. And anyway, I follow it week to week. I do the fast pass.

3:00.5

I love it so much. And the reason I'm talking to Rachel, I'll decide from the fact that

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