RE-AIR: Independent, Industrious, Badass & Brave, the Heroine of Greek Myth, Arcadian Atalanta

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired March 22, 2022. Atalanta: the heroine of ancient Greece. Or, was it heroines? There are two Atalantas, sometimes conflated into one, other times separate. One fought the Calydonian boar, wrestled Peleus, and generally kicked ass. The other lost a foot race, distracted by a golden apple.

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: Theoi.com entry on Atalanta, including Aelian, Apollodorus, Apollonios, and others; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz.

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0:00.0	Thanks to Acast for hosting and monetizing the podcast.
0:50.9	Thank you. to Acast for hosting and monetizing the podcast. Hello, hello, hello, hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I. I am Liv,
0:57.1	your host and person who loves to obsessively research myths, sometimes to a fault.
1:00.9	Hey, remember the old days of the podcast when I used to just do the bare minimum research?
1:05.3	Bit of Wikipedia here, one myth retelling book by a man there.
1:07.1	Ah, the old days.
1:08.2	How I cringe.
1:12.0	Grateful for them and the listeners that still love those days, but man,
1:17.7	how I cringe now. And I still get reviews that are like, OMG, this woman just cannot research to save her life and I just want to scream back at them, but I digress. Today is a very good
1:24.7	example of the lesser research I used to do, because today I am revisiting the single
1:30.2	acknowledged official heroine of ancient Greece, Atlanta.
1:36.6	Now, I've covered Adelaanta's story before, and not even in the earliest days of this podcast,
1:41.3	but still, the comparison between then and now, in terms of
1:45.0	my research abilities and my love for a detailed retelling, are miles apart.
1:50.3	Adalanta had a mini-miff, a mini-my myth for the number one heroine of ancient Greece.
1:55.4	What a fucking travesty.
1:58.4	Thus, here we are.
2:00.3	In the tail end of women's history Month, looking back at Atalanta,
2:04.6	and what makes her the single, acknowledged official ancient Greek heroine, maybe not the only one,
2:14.9	because Adalanta deserves it.
2:20.6	When I originally shared the story of Atlanta,
2:25.6	I shared her most famous anecdotes, moments from her life. But in fact, this heroine of Greek myth appears in many places, in many forms over many, many generations. Today, we're looking at her
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