Hermes Here, Admitting All My Sins: the Remix

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Michaela here giving you a remix of past episodes, looking at three different times that we have explored Hermes here on the show. From the Homeric Hymn, to Emily Hauser's How Women Became Poets, to Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound we are examining the ways that Hermes appears within antiquity. He is an interesting character for sure, and has a lot of different paths you could take to understand him. I love him for all his trickery, his psychopomp-ness, and just generally he seems like a fun guy. Perhaps a problematic fav, but also the guy I chose to be called by on the show so. Tune in next week for the beginning of a new history series with me!

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CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. I try to provide direct warnings when there is reference to anything with overtly traumatic themes but be aware that Greek mythology regularly features assault, death, and many other potentially triggering events.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi there. Live here, speaking from the future. If you are keen to support this podcast,
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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:32.9	Thank you. description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello all. Um, it's Tuesday. It's a Tuesday episode time and I had promises for this week and those promises are going to have to extend to next week because, well, today is a Monday, the 24th of November and I had the most delightfully difficult midterm imaginable. I didn't even quite know how to study for it and I had a rough week last week with some personal things,
1:38.1	not going to get into, but regardless, basically, yeah, school happened.
1:45.1	Life happened.
1:49.4	But work still needs to happen, and I still, you know,
1:54.3	want to get you guys something delightful and fun to listen to on your day, wherever you are planning to do.
1:56.8	I don't know, going to work, cleaning.
2:00.0	Ooh, am I someone's cleaning, buddy?
2:02.1	That's wild.
2:03.0	Anyways.
2:05.3	Yeah.
2:06.2	So I had a midterm today and essentially it was for my Latin class and we had to do literary
2:12.5	analysis of Latin.
2:14.7	That is, you know, full on literary analysis in a separate language. So I wasn't
2:22.0	writing in Latin, but I had to read the Latin and then discuss what the author was doing
2:29.7	with his choice of words, constructions, etc., etc. It was something else.
2:36.5	Let me tell you that.
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