Giving “Lovesick” A Whole New Meaning, Acontius & Cydippe

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is it a love story when the woman is forced to choose between marriage and death? Acontius thinks so! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

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: Ovid's Heroides, translated by Grant Showerman; fragments of Callimachus.

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0:00.0	And the The Oh, well, hello there, this is is let's talk about myths baby and I am that host of yours
0:38.8	she whose voice is slowly returning to normal I honestly can't tell anymore, but thank all the
0:43.9	gods it's getting slightly better. I am live. Hi. Well, well, well,
0:49.7	well, this is my first script or the first script that I'm writing since catching COVID for the first time.
0:57.0	And that means a few things.
0:59.0	Firstly, thank you all for listening to that little Halloween episode that I had to throw together.
1:04.1	I featured some of my favorite spooky stories, ones that I hadn't already re-aired with those bonuses.
1:10.3	That was not planned, like I mentioned in that episode and this whole plan to do a deep dive into the
1:16.3	Underworld and all of its variations like kind of a tour of sorts I was so excited
1:22.0	But of course COVID caught up to me during my favorite time of the year. Just the worst time.
1:27.4	Fortunately, though I did have a pretty mild case, which is why I'm able to be back with you all today, but I am, I am, I am noticing it just, and I literally
1:36.2	haven't even read the first paragraph of this script.
1:39.5	So I'm not 100%.
1:41.0	Bear with me on this episode, please. We're going to do things in a very specific way to help my poor COVID brain, because also, like, those with ADHD will know that in addition to COVID like and brain fog getting back into work
1:55.4	mode after weeks without work when you have ADHD is like a fucking mess so pairing that with my COVID brain fog and like just a lasting feeling of
2:07.2	ick and I'm having a fun time but I am here and enough of my complaints here is where we're at with that
2:15.2	underworld so I had originally intended to just like extend
2:18.3	spooky season for myself because I really wanted to write that episode but I decided not to do that in the end because well it's already
2:26.2	tough enough to find spooky stories that I haven't covered on the show already so we're going to leave that tour of the
2:31.0	underworld for next year, give Future Live something
2:34.7	to be excited about.
2:37.1	Here's a great example of my brain fog.
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