Nobody Labours Like Heracles (Hercules): The Cultural History of the Panhellenic Hero

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Heracles was like, a really big deal. Examining the historical and cultural impact of a 1000+ year old hero. 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: The Oxford Handbook to Heracles, edited by Daniel Ogden; Herakles by Emma Stafford (including the Diodorus Siculus quote/translation); Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Pseudo-Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology.

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0:00.0	This is In Retrospect, a podcast about pop culture from the 80s and 90s that shaped us.
0:13.9	I'm very much a product of the pop culture I consumed, and I don't think that's a bad
0:17.9	thing.
0:18.9	I'm Jessica Bennett, a New York Times writer and best-selling author.
0:21.6	I'm Susie Beta Caram, an award-winning TV producer and filmmaker.
0:25.6	Every week, we'll revisit a moment in cultural history that we just can't stop thinking
0:29.6	about.
0:30.6	From tabloid headlines to illicit student-teacher relationships, and one, very memorable red swimsuits.
0:36.8	I found myself in Pamela Anderson's attic, as you do.
0:40.2	I put that red swimsuit in a safe because it seemed everybody wanted it.
0:43.8	We're digging deep to better understand with these moments taught us about the world and
0:48.4	our place in it.
0:49.9	I want you to really smell the axe-body spray that emanated during this time.
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1:00.6	It had been branded on the uteruses of every single woman from sea to shining sea.
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1:17.9	Evidence wise, we had personally no evidence.
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1:34.8	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer,
1:42.1	Deputy Bill Hardy.
1:44.3	Without solid evidence, the case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
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