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Hi, hello. Thanks for coming. This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby. And I am live your host, the ranty one who likes to curse. Honestly, that I have made it a career to swear excessively while talking about Greek myths is truly a dream come true.

Well, well, well, we are back again with the story of Iffigenaya. I'm really loving telling the story behind this play. There's just so much there, and it's just so fascinating to look at what changes are made by playwrights, what they were trying to do in their take on the classic stories, who they're trying to make you sympathize with. Like Agamemnon, it seemed at the beginning that we were supposed to actually sympathize with that utter shithead.

And Lord, do you all remember how thrown I was by that? But now, I don't quite think so.

Europe is absolutely adding more layers to Agamemnon, more nuance, but ultimately I do think we're still supposed to see him as the shit warmonger who kills his daughter for a bit of wind.

But well, as always, I'm getting ahead of myself. First, let's talk about the first ever livestreamed event that I'm going to do for this podcast, because that's pretty fucking cool.

Next month, September 12th, at 12 p.m. Eastern, I will be livestreaming a moment via momentous in Athens with ancient history, Fangirl.

There's just so much going on there, so much awesome.

Jen and Jenny of Ancient History, Fangirl and I will be meeting up in Athens. We're meeting in person for the first time.

We've become such good friends over this wild year and a half. And we're putting on a livestream of our favorite Patreon series, Drunk Myths.

Granted, we're not getting too drunk because this shit is live, but we will have some Greek wine in hand to tell the myths of Athens' mythological founding and those early snake people.

There's a lot of good shit in this myth, and you can listen to us ramble on about it with a view of the Parthenon in the distance.

That's right. A view of the fucking Parthenon, you amazing nerds.

Tickets start at just $15 with the option for a smaller, more interactive Q&A session after the fact where we will both be at our tipsiest, and ready to answer any and all of your burning questions about mythology or podcasts, Athens itself.

It's going to be seriously fun.

To momenthouse.com slash let's talk about myths baby for tickets or click the link in this episode's description.

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