Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book IV (Part 2)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
Liv Albert
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Liv reads part 2 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book IV, translated by Brookes More. More of the cursed house of Thebes, Cadmus and Harmonia, and even... Perseus' hunt for Medusa and his rescue of Andromeda. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!
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| 0:30.0 | Hi Hello and welcome to another episode of me reading things to you because I love it. |
| 0:38.2 | This is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I'm your host Liv, she who loves to read |
| 0:44.2 | aloud. |
| 0:45.2 | I don't know why I love it so much, but I do. |
| 0:46.7 | So here we are, and thankfully you all enjoy it too, and how could you not? |
| 0:50.7 | It is obvious metamorphoses, motherfuckers. |
| 0:54.1 | It's perfect and wonderful, even when it's a stuffy old translation with weird words |
| 0:58.0 | that I have to translate in the moment so that I'm not saying shit like vow and die |
| 1:01.3 | and twain to you all. |
| 1:02.9 | Why was twain ever a thing? |
| 1:05.3 | Do you know how many times I've had to like re-record something because it's like, |
| 1:08.0 | oh, and he was cut and twain, and I just have to take a beat and be like, what is |
| 1:11.9 | this actually trying to say? |
| 1:13.7 | It's just a deeply unnecessary word. |
| 1:17.2 | Thank you for coming to my TED Talk about the word twain. |
| 1:20.6 | Well with that mad introduction out of the way, shall we jump right back into office |
| 1:24.0 | metamorphoses? |
| 1:25.0 | Get back into this wild world of transformations and tragedies and deeply weird mythological scenarios? |
| 1:32.1 | Today's will begin with something familiar because we are back with that cursed family |
| 1:36.6 | of thieves with that daughter of cadmiss that I told you about only a few weeks ago. |
| 1:42.3 | I know. |
| 1:44.2 | And not I know, but I know. |
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