Murder After Murder, Generation After Generation; the Curse of the Tantalids and the Pelopidae

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It's that time of year again... When we talk about the most horrifying stories from myth. Today, that cursed and murderous family, the Tantalids. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Topostext entries on Tantalus, Seneca's Thyestes, translated by Frank Justus Miller; Pseudo-Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology.

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0:00.0	I'm Penelope Spheras. I'm a film director. I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine.
0:15.3	Back in the 70s, Peter Ivers moved to LA to start his music career. He scored Ron Howard's
0:21.0	directorial debut. I didn't know one thing about Peter Ivers. I just said, okay. Let's meet him.
0:28.4	And he then hosted LA Night Cable TV show. It showcased LA punk bands in all their glory.
0:35.8	The crowd started getting bigger and bigger and then there was Beverly Danzelope. There was John
0:41.2	Balucci. But then it all went to hell. Peter Ivers was murdered on March 3rd, 1983.
0:52.0	And it raised a question that 40 years later, we still don't know the answer to.
0:58.6	Who killed Peter Ivers? Listen to Peter and the Acid King on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast
1:07.6	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.9	Something about Mary Poppins? Something about Mary Poppins. Exactly.
1:18.6	Like man, this is fun. I'm AJ Jacobs and I am an author and a journalist and I tend to get
1:24.9	obsessed with stuff. And my current obsession is Puzzles. And that has given birth to my new
1:32.5	podcast, The Puzzler Dressing Dressing. Exactly. That's good. That's good. We are living in the
1:45.5	golden age of Puzzles. And now you can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered straight to your
1:52.4	ears for 10 minutes or less. Every day on the Puzzler, short and sweet. I thought to myself,
1:57.8	I bet I know what this is. And now I definitely know what this is. This is so weird. This is fun.
2:02.9	Let's try this one. Listen to the Puzzler every day on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts
2:11.2	or wherever you get your podcasts. That's awful. And I should have seen it coming.
2:19.3	I'm Paul Mulden, a poet who over the past several years had the good fortune to spend time with
2:25.5	one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney. We talked through more than 150
2:32.0	tracks from McCartney's songbook. And while we did, we recorded our conversations.
2:39.5	I mean, the fact that I dreamed the song yesterday leads me to believe that
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