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🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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What can we learn from the ancient Greeks? And what should we probably unlearn from them? In this episode, Jen chats to Professor Helen Morales, classicist and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They chat about Helen's new book Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths and how ancient misogyny still underpins modern society, as well as some pilgrimages to Dollywood, among other things.
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0:35.0 | Hello Jen here to tell you about this week's episode of the Sunday Chops. |
0:41.0 | I hope you're all doing okay in week 12.5 of lockdown. This week I had a lovely |
0:48.2 | chat with Helen Maralas who holds the Argyropolis Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, |
0:55.2 | Santa Barbara. |
0:56.2 | She is the author of a number of books including Pilgrange to Dollywood, a country |
0:59.9 | music road trip through Tennessee, which we will talk about in this very episode, because, well, love me some dollywood, don't I? |
1:06.5 | But she is also author of the new book, Antigony Rising, The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths, which is described as a witty inspiring reckoning with the ancient |
1:15.2 | Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about hashtag me too to the radical |
1:20.6 | imagery of Beyoncé and obviously she had me at Beyonce. |
1:24.8 | We had a fascinating chat about what we can learn from the Greeks and what we should probably |
1:28.2 | unlearn from the Greeks about misogyny. |
1:30.9 | Obviously we touch on Beyonce and indeed Dolly Parton and also about the cultural differences between |
1:36.1 | the UK and the US in terms of how we treat our women. |
1:38.9 | I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed joined via Zoom by Helen |
1:44.8 | I'm joined via Zoom by Helen Morales, |
1:47.9 | classist and our gropolis chair in Hellenic studies |
1:51.6 | at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and, gosh that was hard to say, |
1:57.0 | author of the new book Antigony Rising the Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths. |
2:02.0 | Hello Helen, how are you? |
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