RE-AIR: The Cyprian Goddess, the Cytherean, Venus, Aphrodite, A Conversation with Author Bettany Hughes

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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A re-airing of Liv's episode with Bettany Hughes about all things Aphrodite, Venus, and her ancestors throughout even more ancient Mediterranean cultures. You can find Bettany Hughes's book Venus and Aphrodite at your local bookstore.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.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dan Battees from the Dan Battees questions everything podcast.
0:13.2	Hello, I'm Howard from the Dan Battees questions everything podcast.
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1:00.6	Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, and I am your host, Liv.
1:08.2	Alright, so, Tiz the season.
1:11.9	Tiz the season for Liv to take a little bit of a break and apparently talk about herself
1:16.9	in the third person.
1:18.6	Of course, it is the holidays, happy holidays to anyone who celebrates and happy whatever
1:23.6	you celebrate.
1:24.9	Now, I personally am looking forward to having some time both to myself and to finally finish
1:31.9	this novel and to finish a new book proposal that I'm working on and to work on the very
1:39.0	special series of episodes that are coming up in January that you are all going to go nuts
1:44.5	over that I am so excited about and that are taking like about three times as long as
1:49.4	regular episodes because of the nature of these episodes.
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1:55.2	Anyway, what that means is over the holiday period when people aren't necessarily listening
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