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

Hermes Historia: We Yearn for the Grave

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this (late, it's still free for a reason) Hermes Historia episode, Michaela shares a brief history of ancient Greek funerary practices. Because Spooky Season. 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: John Ferguson's Among the Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion; Maria Serena Mirto's Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age; Herodotus' The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to. And the So, Michael and I are trying to record these next two episodes of Hermes Historia, but it's been a little while we both have had a ton of stuff going on and I am trying to move across the country and

0:47.6

then there's extenuating circumstances in my life that I'm not prepared to yet announce on Mike.

0:53.4

But basically I'm losing my whole damn mind.

0:56.4

And so this is the introduction.

0:58.4

This is Hermes Historia while we find our footing.

1:01.2

It's still free anyway until we figure out also the subscription that's coming.

1:06.3

So keep enjoying these Hermes Historia episodes and yeah, Michaela, why don't you, why don't you take it away?

1:13.8

What are we talking about today?

1:15.6

Hi, so because it's, you know, a spooky season.

1:19.7

I had to pick spooky topics.

1:22.4

I would have been offended if you didn't. I know.

1:26.0

You might have been fired. That might have been the thing that did it.

1:29.2

Originally I was going to do something else for this first one but and then I decided I was going to do that

1:35.0

that next month instead.

1:36.0

So here we are.

1:37.0

I support this.

1:38.0

Yeah, I know.

1:39.0

I like the spookiness too, as you know.

1:42.0

You know. You?

1:43.0

No.

1:44.0

Just a touch.

1:46.0

So for this first one, we're going to talk about Greek funerary practices.

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