Just When Things Are Looking Up, Aeneas Goes to War (the Aeneid Part 10)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Finally, finally, Aeneas and the Trojans reach Latium. But Hera isn't finished with them yet!
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: Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.
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| 0:00.0 | And the |
| 0:38.2 | The Hi, hello welcome. This is let's talk about myths baby and I'm your host live now this is the second episode with my new music and I am obsessed with it so I can only trust you |
| 0:44.8 | all are as well. Conveniently enough it's a song called Athens and the artist is |
| 0:49.3 | Magnus Moon it's magnificent. A quick note before we dive in I wanted to let you all know |
| 0:55.7 | that I've started creating Spotify playlists of podcast episodes. Essentially |
| 1:01.0 | these are curated lists of past episodes that help put them into |
| 1:04.9 | categories for easy listening like there's a playlist for all the Trojan War |
| 1:08.5 | episodes or the Odyssey these episodes weren't released all completely consecutively so this puts them all together. |
| 1:15.6 | There's a playlist of episodes about the Olympians and about strong women and LGBT QIA characters. |
| 1:22.0 | For now you can find links to these in my Instagram story highlights or on my Twitter, both are |
| 1:26.7 | at Myth's Baby. |
| 1:28.1 | Soon they'll be on my website too, but baby steps. |
| 1:30.8 | Because man, have I got a lot of fun new things going on. |
| 1:35.6 | Well here we are back again with Anius. |
| 1:39.6 | Uh Anius. |
| 1:41.3 | I think I've made it fairly clear in these episodes I've done on the aniad, but I am not half as well versed in Roman history and mythology as I am Greek. |
| 1:50.0 | Yes, I still took it in university, but oh, that was some time ago now, so I don't count myself as completely reliable. |
| 1:56.7 | I harp on about propaganda, mostly because, well, it's obvious a lot of it is propaganda, |
| 2:01.6 | and I know full well that Augustus commissioned the work from Virgil for exactly that. |
| 2:06.0 | But still, there are definitely major complexities that I'm unaware of. |
| 2:10.0 | In general, this is a very different work than I'm used to, though I do reference all of it a lot, because it was written much more intentionally than the Greek writers, who, at least for Heesiad and Homer, were, for the most part, just documenting the well-known beliefs and stories of their time. |
| 2:28.0 | The Anion is trying to solidify a myth it was in part well-known, but working to turn it into something that supported the leadership at the time. |
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