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🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Helen of Sparta, later of Troy, is so many things... it all depends on where you're looking. In this episode we examine the Helen of Homer, and of Sparta itself.
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. Sources: Helen: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes; Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah B. Pomeroy; Theoi.com; The Iliad, translated by Caroline Alexander; The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz.
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0:00.0 | Why should I blame her that she failed my days with misery or that she would of late |
0:20.8 | have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, or hurled the little streets upon the great |
0:27.4 | ad-bay book courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind that |
0:32.8 | nobleness made simple as a fire, with beauty like a tightened bow, a kind that is not |
0:38.8 | natural in an age like this, being high and solitary and most stern? Why? What could she |
0:46.4 | have done being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? |
1:16.4 | Hi there, hello this is Let's talk about myths, baby, and I am your host, Liv, that |
1:24.9 | wordy woman who yells. Oh, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen. We're back today covering |
1:31.8 | more of that mysterious woman, the woman behind the beauty. Who was she? Beyond a pretty |
1:37.8 | face that men deemed to be reason enough to start a war. The woman blamed for it all, |
1:43.3 | because it's easier to blame the woman than one's own failure, loss, toxic masculinity. |
1:50.6 | Helen is fucking fascinating, but so is the world that seemed to revolve around her, |
1:55.4 | whether she liked it or not. But before we get into Helen's continued story, I honestly |
2:00.6 | can't remember what episode I've already announced this, or if I've already announced |
2:04.6 | this because I've recorded a lot of things in advance, so if this isn't news, well, I |
2:08.9 | guess you're hearing it again, or maybe this is for the first time? Who knows anymore? |
2:12.8 | Regardless, I am very happy to announce a series of special episodes coming in January. |
2:20.7 | If I haven't told you outright, I've hinted the hell out of it, and hey, maybe some of |
2:25.5 | those episodes I've already recorded will continue to only hint at it as if I haven't |
2:29.8 | already announced it. Frankly, I've gotten better about planning the episodes themselves, |
2:34.8 | but evidently not the announcing of the episodes themselves spitted out Liv. I am finally, |
2:41.3 | covering the story of Atlantis. January 11th begins this special series, what will be |
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