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

RE-AIR: Conversations: The Things They Found in Tombs, Bronze Age Mycenae w/ Dr Kim Shelton

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired in april 2024. Liv is joined by Dr Kim Shelton to dive deeper into the real world of Bronze Age Mycenae and all we've learned from what they left behind. Learn more about Dr Shelton's work here.

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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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1:36.5

This is Let's Talk About Mitz, Baby.

1:39.4

And I am your host, Live here with the first conversation episode of our Bronze Age and its collapse series.

1:49.2

And I am so excited.

1:51.2

So I spoke with Dr. Kim Shelton, who is a professor at UC Berkeley, but also the director of the Nemia Center for Classical Archaeology, which is, it's all just so great.

2:03.5

Oh my God.

2:04.0

Kim has worked on so many incredible sites in ancient Greece, but the main one being Mycini.

2:11.8

We had such an incredible conversation about Bronze Age Mycini and just everything in between so many

2:20.9

of the pieces that are going to be expanded upon from the episode that I released on Tuesday,

2:26.4

so many questions answered, so many additional details and like just littlest things that

2:32.1

you just, you do not get without just straight up

2:34.8

speaking to somebody who was actively worked. I'm pretty sure she said at one point that that she'd

2:40.4

lived there working at Mycini for 12 years. Like that is what we are at here, the level of Mycini.

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