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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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This episode originally aired in summer of 2023. So! Much! Seneca! Lauren Ginsberg joins Liv to RAVE about Seneca's Medea, and provide some helpful and fascinating Roman context, among so many other things. 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.
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| 2:20.5 | And now on Tuesday and Wednesday, I brought to you a revised slash, I didn't actually do any revisions, but I recorded a new introduction version of the episodes I did on Seneca's Thiesti'ses because I love how visceral and violent and utterly |
| 2:38.0 | bah-ha-ha-ha, and that's like, that's been to be like a horror scream, but like without, |
| 2:43.2 | you know, doing any damage, just like, ah-ha, you know, it's just really good. And the story actually behind how I came to to read Seneca's Thiestes is that I first, like I said, in the introduction for earlier this week's episodes, I first covered Medea. |
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