Hermes Historia: How Do You Pronounce Extispicy?!

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Happy Halloween! On today's Hermes Historia Michaela tells Liv all about the ancient practices of divination and speaking with the dead... Sign up for a new newsletter to stay in the loop about the upcoming ad-free subscriptions where future Hermes' Historia episodes will live! Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes!

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: Herodotus' The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield; Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the ancient greco-roman world; Sarah Iles Johnston. Ancient Greek Divination; Sarah Iles Johnston. “Charming Children: The Use of the Child in Ancient Divination”.

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0:00.0	From the Scopes Monkey Trial to O.J.
0:03.0	Trials have always made us reflect on the world we live in.
0:17.0	I'm Mira Hayward, and my podcast History on Trial will explore
0:23.8	fascinating trials from American history.
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0:27.2	and discover how the legal battles of the past
0:29.5	have shaped our present.
0:31.3	Listen and subscribe to history on Trial. Now on the IHeart
0:34.8	radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Oh, Well listeners once again we're here with another episode of Hermes Historia and I'm still figuring out the best way of introducing these episodes or whether I need to at all.
1:14.0	Because here we are.
1:16.0	Michaela, what's the topic today?
1:18.0	This is Michaela.
1:19.0	Hi, so, okay, let's see.
1:22.0	Okay, so, hi, it's the end of spooky season now.
1:26.0	Damn straight it is.
1:28.0	Even though we aired these back to back because to the listeners, we just, I mean I was unprepared. Look mean I was unprepared life and we're not
1:34.0	charging yet and so we're still figuring it out so we're gonna we're gonna
1:40.8	we're gonna dip our toes into a little bit of magic and I couldn't just do magic because magic is so complex of a topic, right?
1:48.4	Like I have an entire...
1:49.6	Necromantic?
1:50.6	That is, let's you wait, an entire book on Magic and the Ancient Greco-Roman world and I had to pick one.
1:57.0	There were many options. There were love charms and erotic curses.
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