Liv Reads Statius: The Thebaid (Part 11)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Liv reads (the first half) of Book 11 of Statius' Thebaid, translated by JH Mozley. It's the beginning of the end... The brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, are about fight each other. But first, rants, raves, and pleas from the women in their lives... Furies, Jocasta, and Antigone. Submit to the quarterly Q&A 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.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi there. Live here, speaking from the future. If you are keen to support this podcast,
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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:15.1	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is Let's talk about Mitz baby, and I am your host, Live.
1:21.6	Here with a reading episode, I'm so excited to actually have an episode. Is it normally a day when I would have a reading episode? No, but am I just excited to be able to at least record
1:27.3	something new for you all?
1:29.2	Why, yes, yes, I am.
1:30.7	And that something is we are getting so close to the end of Staceous's Thebiod.
1:38.9	And so I'm bringing you more of that.
1:42.4	But first, just like a couple little pieces of information.
1:46.9	Because at this point, I just feel like I like trauma dump all of my inability to function as a human being,
1:53.3	like into this microphone. So I guess I might as well keep it up. So a little another note about I am,
1:59.9	I am so keen to get back to actually working in this podcast and like bringing you new episodes.
2:06.4	Honestly, I mean, writing this children's odyssey has been so incredible, so much more work than I expected.
2:14.1	But it has been also something that's given me so much inspiration for like things I can do
2:19.5	when I have more time. And so much of that is coming in the form of female rage and feminine
2:26.9	rage. And I mean, I think that that's one of the few things that I'm personally able to channel
2:33.4	my feelings into right now,
2:36.6	the world is on fire.
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