Mythology vs. Myth Making, From the Heracleidae to Thermopylae, Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part Three)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

That's right it's time for actually, run of the mill mythology! Okay, it's Spartan so actually it's still pretty weird, and confusing... Because you know, Greek mythology. We're talking Children of Heracles and all the famous Spartans of the Homeric world. Plus, the myth-making that gave us 300. 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; Herakles by Emma Stafford; Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion; Theoi.com; Herodotus’ Histories, Godley translation found on Perseus; Bad Ancient entry on the 300 at Thermopylae; A Companion to Sparta, edited by Anton Howell.

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0:00.0	Leave in your turn, Pleasant Tietos, Com Laconian Muse, Com glorify the God of Amicly,
0:14.1	worthy of our regard, and the mistress in the temple of bronze, and the noble Tindari
0:20.0	Eye, who sport along the Erotas.
0:23.7	Some enter the dance, come with light-bounds, that we may sing of Sparta, that loves the
0:29.7	choruses of the gods, and the beating of the dancing feet, when, like fillies, the girls
0:35.8	leap beside the Erotas, raising the dust with the rhythm of their feet, their hair tosses
0:42.9	like that of the back-hands.
0:45.4	Frallicking as they waive the thursus, the daughter of Lida Holy, heads them, splendid chorus
0:53.2	leader.
1:23.2	Well, hi, hello, and welcome to another episode of Let's Talk About Mids, baby, I still
1:33.1	hate singing that.
1:35.9	I am that woman who talks in your ear about all things ancient Greece.
1:40.2	Live.
1:41.2	That quote at the top was, if you can believe it, lines from Aristophanes' lysis trada,
1:48.0	less of the comedic lines.
1:50.6	It's found in an article called Pre-classical Sparta, a song culture by Claude Calame,
1:57.2	I've probably mispronouncing that, and translated from the French by James Roy.
2:02.0	We can't find out exactly how the translation of the Greek happened, but it's from this
2:05.8	article, and thus I have done my due diligence with copyright.
2:11.3	And today I am here with more of Sparta, because God's this series is fun and fascinating,
2:16.9	and God's there is just so, so much to say about this ancient people for good and bad.
2:24.8	Today though we're talking about mythology, the thing that makes this podcast what it
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