RE-AIR: The Trickster God Hermes, the Original Baby Genius; A Reading of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Revisiting one of Greek mythology's most hilarious and wild story, the exploits of Baby Hermes. 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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0:00.0	This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew.
0:14.6	From the right of Bohemian rap city.
0:19.4	This is what they want, America's sweetheart.
0:21.4	You won't give it to them.
0:22.6	Just watch me.
0:26.8	I want to dance with somebody, only in cinemas now.
0:56.8	Hello, hello, hello.
0:59.1	This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby.
1:02.0	And I'm your host and lover of mythology.
1:04.8	Live.
1:05.8	I am still taking the holiday off, so once again I am here to give you a fun re-airing of
1:10.3	a past episode that both I and Michaela think you really need to listen to.
1:15.6	Maybe it's been a while or maybe you missed it entirely.
1:18.4	Either way, this one is worth it.
1:20.3	Because yeah, it's that time Hermes was born and did a whole bunch of absolutely incredible
1:25.5	and wild shit as a baby.
1:28.8	Because he's Hermes and he's truly brilliantly awesome.
1:32.6	I've also tacked on to the end of this episode, my reading of the Homeric Ham to Hermes,
1:37.3	where this story comes from.
1:38.6	So if you want to listen to the original too, in addition to my retelling, then you can
1:42.7	listen all the way through to the end of this episode.
1:45.2	They are both fun and hilarious and man, just it's Hermes.
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