Men Fear What They Cannot Command or Control, the Husband-Slaying Lemnian Women

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

Liv Albert

Arts, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Just a casual, not at all timely, look at the myth of women taking revenge on their abusers and oppressors. For funsies. Check out the next group trip through Thalassa Journeys. Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby. Enter our podcast guest form if you'd like to be on the show as a conversation guest!

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.

Sources: Apollonios of Rhodes' Argonautica; Hyginus' Fabulae; Pseudo-Apollodorus' Library; Statius' Thebaid.

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1:14.5	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. And at dawn, before the Argonauts as they they journeyed, rose Athos, the Thracian Mountain,
1:20.4	which with its topmost peak overshadows Lemnos, even as far as Marini.
1:27.3	Though it lies as far off as the space that a well-trimmed merchant ship would traverse up to midday. For them on that day,
1:29.2	till darkness fell, the breeze blew exceedingly fresh, and the sails of the ship strained to it,
1:35.7	but with the setting of the sun the wind left them, and it was by the oars that they reached Lemnos,
1:41.5	the Sintian Isle. Here the whole of the men of the people together
1:46.3	had been ruthlessly slain through the transgressions of the women in the year gone by. For the men
1:52.3	had rejected their lawful wives loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive
1:58.8	maids whom they themselves brought across the sea from their forays
2:03.3	in Thrace. For the terrible wrath of Kipris came upon them, because for a long time they had
2:10.3	grudged her all the honors do. Oh, hapless women and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin.
2:19.4	Not their husbands alone with the captives did they slay on account of the marriage bed,
2:24.8	but all the males at the same time that they might thereafter pay no retribution for the grim murder.
2:45.3	Music no retribution for the grim murder. Hi, hello, welcome. This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I am your host with the most fury, live.
2:55.8	Okay, real quick up at the top, I just want to let you all know that there is a new group
2:59.8	trip available for your perusal if you are so inclined. This is a similar trip to what we
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