Greek Myths
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Haynes joined me on the podcast to retell the stories of remarkable women at the heart of Greek myths, from Medusa, Penelope, and Pandora, to the Amazons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History. In this episode of History, we're going right |
| 0:03.4 | the way back to Greek myths, these foundational stories that we tell ourselves to this day, |
| 0:08.0 | thousands of years after they were first dreamed up, thousands of years after they were first written |
| 0:12.4 | down, which attempt to explain our own universe, our own nature, our own condition to ourselves. |
| 0:20.9 | The Greek myths have endured as a corpus of extraordinary stories, and they're brought brilliantly |
| 0:26.8 | into focus by Natalie Haynes. She's been on the podcast before. She's as smart as she is |
| 0:32.8 | funny and she's god damn hysterical. She's written a mixture of history and historical fiction. |
| 0:38.8 | Always rooted in the ancient world, and she's now published a book about Greek myths, |
| 0:43.2 | their genesis, and how in the retelling they've evolved and transformed, and in many ways departed |
| 0:49.3 | from their original forms. If you love classical history then you've got to go and check out |
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| 1:09.7 | but better. On history content, all that history content on there, hundreds of hours of documentary |
| 1:14.7 | through the whole works. So go and fill your boots in the meantime, enjoy Natalie Haynes. |
| 1:25.6 | Natalie, good to have you back on the podcast. It's lovely to be back, thanks for having me. |
| 1:30.0 | The thing I've always found fascinating about myths is that they're not written down anywhere, |
| 1:33.4 | are they? The weird thing about the Greek myths is that they seem to exist, and nobody, |
| 1:38.2 | apart from very clever people at you, can tell you where the platonic ideal form, |
| 1:43.2 | original form of that myth is, there's no canonical text, is there? |
| 1:46.0 | There just isn't. And actually, in a way, it's a sign of a myth success and of a character's, |
| 1:51.7 | a mythological character's success that there isn't an ear text, as it were, because what it means, |
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