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

Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 3

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

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Liv reads Book 3 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and Vancouver Island University. Submit questions and prompts for future Odyssey readings at mythsbaby.com/questions and get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby

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.

This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title!

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

Learn more about Liv's next group trip to GREECE, this time following along with Ariadne's escape from Theseus. Pre-order Liv's new book, The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby.


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0:00.0

Oh, hi there. Live here, speaking from the future. If you are keen to support this podcast,

0:05.6

if you are enjoying the episodes as you find them and you want to listen ad-free, check out

0:11.4

the Oracle edition on Patreon. It didn't exist way back when these early episodes were recorded,

0:17.5

but I'm telling you about it now. You can get all 700 and counting episodes of Let's Talk About Myths Baby,

0:24.6

ad free, along with so much more at patreon.com slash mythsbaby or via the link in the podcast description.

0:34.1

Thanks and happy listening.

1:18.8

Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about, baby, and I am your host, Live back here with more reading of The Odyssey. Okay, I am so excited that you all are so excited about this

1:26.3

fresh and newer translation of The Odyssey that I can now read to you

1:31.8

all. I really needed you all to be excited because I really wanted to do this. But you are.

1:36.8

And I'm really thrilled to hear from everyone how much you've enjoyed the like context breaks

1:44.1

around where I would pause for

1:45.6

ads normally, which is great to hear as well. I've already got a few questions for you all.

1:50.7

So we're going to drive. We're going to dive right back into this. And if you have more

1:55.9

Odyssey-specific questions or topics you'd like me to talk about in those kind of context breaks.

2:02.2

Make sure you submit them. You can either just comment on this episode on Spotify or send a message

2:07.5

through our website, Mythsbaby.com slash questions. If it's specifically for The Odyssey,

2:13.1

just like put that in the question, if you can, just so that we know where to go.

2:16.7

And as always, though,

2:18.1

submit questions for an ongoing Q&A episode. I'd love to do another one, but we only have a few.

2:23.2

And quite frankly, there's this question that's like really well meaning and really well thought

2:28.6

out. But basically it boils down to another question of like why it's women's problem to save men

2:36.1

from the thing that they have created.

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