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

My Favorite [Ancient] Murder, Nyx, Eris, and their Deadly Dynasty

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

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's here: the final episode of Spooky Season... featuring the mother-daughter goddesses of darkness themselves, Nyx and Eris, and their deadly dynasty of murder, manslaughter, and overall mayhem, including serial killers of Greek mythology.

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: Hesiod's Theogony translated by Hugh Evelyn White; Theoi.com.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

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0:00.0

You're going to. At the first chaos came to be, but next wide-buzzomed earth the ever sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus,

0:29.1

and dimmed Tartarus in the depths of the wide-path path earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods who unnerves the limbs

0:38.9

and overcomes the mind and wise councils of all gods and all men within them. From chaos came

0:46.4

forth Erebus and Black Knight, but of Knight were born Ether and Day whom she conceived and Bear from Union in love with

0:56.2

Arabus. And Night bear hateful doom and black fate and death, and she bear sleep and the tribe of dreams.

1:08.2

And again the goddess Merky night, though she lay with none, bear blame and painful woe, and the

1:15.0

disparities who guard the rich golden apples and the trees bearing fruit

1:20.0

beyond glorious ocean.

1:22.0

Also she bear the destinies beyond glorious ocean.

1:30.0

Also she bear the destinies and ruthless avenging fates Clotho and laches and atropos, who give men at their birth evil and good to have and they pursue the transgressions of

1:36.4

men and of gods and these goddesses never cease from their dread anger until they punish the sinner with a sore penalty.

1:45.0

And also Deadly Knight bear nemesis to afflict mortal men,

1:50.0

and after her deceit and friendship and hateful age and hard-hearted strife.

1:58.3

But have poured strife bear painful toil and forgetfulness and famine and tearful sorrows.

2:05.0

Fightings also battles, murders, manslaughter, quarrels, lying words, disputes, lawlessness, and ruin, all of one nature, and oath who most

2:19.4

troubles men upon earth when anyone willfully swears a false oath.

2:24.0

Spooky Halloween

2:33.0

Halloween this is let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live and fine is it technically

2:41.8

Halloween yet?

2:43.4

No, but am I just thrilled to be able to reference my own favorite

2:47.2

podcast, my favorite murder in an episode?

2:49.9

Absolutely.

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