RE-AIR: Why Did Clytemnestra Kill Cassandra, Another Q&A
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired in February 2025; the question about Clytemnestra and Cassandra is so relevant to the latest series on Aeschylus' Agamemnon, so if you're curious, here's the original question and ancswer...
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hey, nerds, I'm just here with a quick bit of news. So if you've ever thought of splurging on a trip to a couple of Greek islands and Athens, and you want to do it with me in October of this year, check the link in this episode's description or go to mythsbaby.com slash group trip for more information. It's happening. |
| 0:20.0 | Highlights include following in Ariadne's footsteps as she flees the dreaded Theseus. |
| 0:25.6 | Mythsbaby.com slash grouptrip. |
| 1:10.3 | Music The Hello, this is Let's talk about Myths, Baby, and I am your host, Live here with a lot of, some stuff, some stuff. |
| 1:18.1 | Some of it is more of the Q&A that I started last Tuesday and other things are stuff I learned the other day and want to share with you. |
| 1:21.7 | But before I dive back into the question that I ended last week's somewhat cliffhanger of an episode on. |
| 1:31.1 | Why did Clytemnestra kill Cassandra? |
| 1:34.6 | Before we get there, I have to tell you that I'm doing an event. |
| 1:37.1 | I keep forgetting to say this into a microphone, and so I am sorry, |
| 1:40.7 | especially because I've basically only done it on Instagram, |
| 1:43.9 | and Instagram is like the devil |
| 1:46.2 | now, but it's also kind of the only place where I have access to listeners more directly. |
| 1:51.7 | But in any case, I'm doing an event in London. London, England, not London, Ontario. I'm sorry. |
| 1:58.6 | If we ever get to meet London, Ontario, you will have to come to |
| 2:04.1 | Toronto almost certainly. But that's fine. But for now, for now we are, we are looking across the pond, |
| 2:11.6 | as they say. And I am doing an event in London. I have teamed up with my friend Kossie Carnegie of Kossie's Odyssey, |
| 2:19.7 | who has become kind of the queen of putting on beautiful classics-related events in London. |
| 2:25.7 | And so we are getting together to do a live podcast recording, a conversation, basically an opportunity for me to just talk about |
| 2:37.1 | Medusa in front of a crowd. It's going to be really fun. We're doing it at a bookstore, |
| 2:42.8 | so it will also benefit a really nice bookstore, the name of which I have forgotten. I've |
| 2:48.1 | never been to London. I'm trusting Kasi with all of this, but it's going to be |
| 2:51.6 | lovely. Tickets are on sale now. They are not free. Unfortunately, we do have to charge a bit in |
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