CXXXV: Born of a Golden Shower, the Somewhat Heroic Origins of Perseus (Part 1)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Revisiting the story of Perseus: the details and variations, the so-called "full" story of the (mostly) heroic hero's origins and his quest to save his mother, Danae.

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: Theoi.com; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz.

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0:30.0	Oh Hello Nerds
0:34.0	This is Let's Talk About Myths Baby
0:37.2	And I am your host Liv
0:39.6	Here with a bit of a throwback episode in terms of
0:43.0	Less Than Heroic Heroes
0:45.5	The past few weeks have been pretty wild for me
0:47.2	I tried to take a vacation from the podcast
0:49.0	But I don't know what I was thinking
0:50.0	Because I had a book to deliver
0:51.0	Which took up all of my time and thus
0:53.5	No actual resting
0:55.2	But there's something so very satisfying
0:57.0	about bringing the show back to its roots and diving into the story of
1:01.3	Percy-S with way way more detail
1:05.5	I e just all of the detail I put into episodes these days
1:08.9	It's fun for me, fun for you all and so here we are with a light
1:12.7	and breezy episode about the guy who was pretty heroic
1:16.6	Up until the point that he killed our beloved Medusa
1:19.6	even though she wasn't remotely a threat
1:21.8	But before we get into that
1:24.6	Like I just vaguely mentioned in my
1:26.9	Ramble about real life Liv
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