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🗓️ 23 November 2021
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Prometheus tells Io of her ongoing story of suffering, but also hey! She's going to start quite the dynasty. Finally, Hermes arrives with news from Zeus.
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: The Prometheus Bound (maybe) by Aeschylus: translations by Herbert Weir Smyth, James Romm, and George Theodoridis. All quotations from the Weir Smyth unless otherwise noted. Special thanks to Ash Strain for their help researching this episode! Follow Ash on Twitter: @ashstrain_.
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0:30.0 | Hi Hello welcome one and all! |
0:34.3 | This is Let's Talk About Mets Baby! |
0:37.5 | And I'm your host Liv, the woman who absolutely physically cannot be brief |
0:42.1 | When it comes to Greek plays |
0:44.5 | They're just too good you guys |
0:47.4 | They're too good and thus we have three episodes long arcs covering them |
0:51.8 | because fuck I love Greek tragedy so much |
0:55.4 | Anyway,Anyway |
0:58.0 | I am here today with the final episode in the Prometheus bound arc of episodes |
1:03.6 | The play that can be summed up pretty succinctly as a story of Zeus's tyranny |
1:08.8 | a fact that is in itself utterly fucking fascinating |
1:13.6 | Well Gods know I won't be able to finish this series up with any new kind of brevity |
1:18.6 | So let's skip any kind of real introductory rambling and jump right into the where were we of it all |
1:25.8 | So where were we? Prometheus is obviously bound |
1:29.9 | He's been bound to the side of a mountain by unbreakable chains bound there physically by a feistess |
1:35.8 | but entirely on the order of Zeus |
1:38.5 | carried out by those personification gods, Kratos and Bia |
1:43.3 | Bia as you might have noticed didn't speak |
1:45.5 | That's because of the three actor rule that exists for most Greek tragedy |
1:49.9 | I've mentioned it in passing but it's another fascinating bit about the history of these plays |
1:53.8 | and how they are meant to be performed |
1:56.1 | Traditionally, Greek tragedies only ever have three speaking parts onstage at any given time |
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