RE-AIR: The Serial Killer Who Left a Woman On An Island (Theseus Parts 1 & 3)

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Liv is on "holiday!"! A re-airing of two favourite Theseus Was the Worst episodes. First, Theseus is destined to be a hero, he just knows it. He's willing to kill anyone along the way in order to prove it. Then, Theseus is back and badder than ever. He finally encounters the Minotaur and proceeds to leave the woman who helped him on an island. He's just that type of guy.

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: Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton, Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology translated by Robin Hard, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, Plutarch's Life of Theseus translated by Bernadotte Perrin as found here theoi.com/Text/PlutarchTheseus.html.

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0:30.0	Oh nerds hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I'm your host who is taking a bit of much needed time off
0:40.7	I'm recording this beforehand and I'm just very excited anyway, I'm live
0:44.6	that's right today is the first of two re-airing episodes that I am presenting you with so that I could take a couple of weeks for myself
0:54.6	and also to work on my novel and another project I can't talk about yet
1:00.6	you'll appreciate both when they're finally in the world I'm sure
1:04.6	and so I decided to re-air two parts of what has to be my favorite series of episodes
1:12.6	at least when it comes to writing and researching them because they were just so much fun
1:18.6	every bit I researched was worse than the bit that came before
1:23.6	yes it is the man I love to hate the worst man of all Greek mythology
1:32.6	even worse than Jason theses
1:37.6	the thing about theses is he's just so much fun to write about
1:43.6	because there's so much content such an epic storyline it's all utterly wild and so messed up
1:50.6	today's episode is a re-airing of two parts of the four part story that I covered last year
1:57.6	though of course last year we also wove in a lot of minnowing backstory episodes
2:03.6	so if you want to hear more you can refer back to basically most of the episodes from April, May and July of last year
2:12.6	that's the whole collection of minnowing bull myths, labyrinthine stories and the worst of theses
2:20.6	today though a compilation of parts one and three
2:24.6	theses the serial killer because that one's so fun and theses the man who abandoned women on islands after they help them defeat monster's creatures
2:33.6	the highlights of the best guy
2:36.6	before we get to that though an announcement as I mentioned last week I am going to be running a book giveaway to celebrate four goddamn years of this podcast
2:46.6	so here is the deal first all of the terms and details of the giveaway are available at mythsbaby.com slash giveaway
2:57.6	next there are three parts to this giveaway one is specific to patreon so if you want to be entered there two head over to patreon and become a patron
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