Liv Reads Statius: The Thebaid (Part 12)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Liv reads (the second half) of Book 11 of Statius' Thebaid, translated by JH Mozley. It's the beginning of the end... The brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fight to the death and leave their surviving family members - Jocasta, Antigone, Ismene, and Oedipus - to deal with their grief. 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

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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
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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:13.8	Thank you. description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, Baby, and I am your host.
1:17.3	Here again, Liv, that's me.
1:21.4	You all heard from Michaela last week, which was so exciting.
1:31.3	I'm so thrilled to have more episodes from her, and also particularly episodes, which allow me to take a holiday i spent a whole week where i didn't look at any work related things any emails or obsessively check social
1:38.5	media out of fear or various other things and honestly that felt great It felt great. And so we're very grateful to
1:46.2	Michaela for such a thing. But now I am back and I am back with the second half of book 11 of Stacea's
1:54.2	Thibaiad. Now we are getting so close to the end. But it's not there yet. We're not there yet.
2:00.7	We have to finish this book.
2:03.5	But first, I just want to make a little request to all of you. It is that time again. We want to do
2:10.9	an end of year slash beginning of a new year Q&A series of episodes. So it's time once more that I ask you all for. Questions, comments,
2:23.4	I mean, only concerns if they're not about me personally. Share what you have. I would love to have
2:31.0	some more ideas of things we can talk about. Michaela and I are going to record at least one of these Q&As together.
2:36.1	So if you have more either Michaela-specific questions or history-specific questions, send
2:42.0	them our way.
2:43.5	It's going to be really fun.
2:44.7	And remember, we do have the option for voice recording now, too, which, frankly, I just
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