Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book IV (Part 1)

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

Liv Albert

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Liv reads part 1 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book IV, translated by Brookes More. The daughters of Minyas tell stories, including that of Pyramus and Thisbe. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

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!

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0:00.0	Harry Potter and the Sacred Text is a weekly podcast co-hosted by Vanessa Zoltan and Matt
0:15.2	Potts, who met during their time together at Harvard Divinity School.
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0:23.4	the transphobia of J.K. Rowling and holds space for the people, the listeners who are affected
0:28.3	by it. That is really important.
0:30.8	On this podcast, Matt and Vanessa ask, what if we read the books we love as if they were
0:35.0	sacred texts? Each week, Matt and Vanessa relive the magic by exploring a chapter of the
0:40.1	Harry Potter series through themes like commitment, revenge, forgiveness, and more. Utilizing traditional
0:45.7	forms of sacred reading to one earth hidden lessons within even the most mundane sentences.
0:50.9	Many scholars of religion believe that what makes a text sacred is not the text itself,
0:55.4	but rather the community of readers around it. Harry Potter and the Sacred Text applies
0:59.0	a critical lens to both the text and its author, and holds space for readers and listeners
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1:42.8	Oh, hello, and welcome to another episode where I just read you a source from the ancient
1:47.3	world because it's fun and nice, and it makes both of us happy. This is Let's Talk
1:52.4	About Miss Baby, and I'm your host, the woman who loves one Roman writer, and his name
1:58.4	is Ovid. My name is Liv, though. So yeah, here I am once again with the reading of Ovid's
2:03.5	Metamorphoses, because it's fucking fun, and I love it, and that source generally is
2:08.6	just so good and nice that you only need to hear it in the flesh for real. Of course,
2:13.5	I am still here with this old and stuffy translation because copyright law, but all the same.
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