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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Sing, Muses, of Yourselves… of Apollo, Eagles, Dragons, and the Oracle of Delphi

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The *official* 100th episode is here! Sing, Muses, of the Oracle, the woman who held the fates of the Greeks in her hands. And of yourselves, the women who give us the arts and all its wonders.

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: Theoi.com; Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns translated by Hugh Evelyn White; The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind its Lost Secrets by William J. Broad; quotes from: The Iliad translated by Caroline Alexander, The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson. All other quotes found and sourced on Theoi.com under Muses.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

Learn more about Liv's next group trip to GREECE, this time following along with Ariadne's escape from Theseus. Pre-order Liv's new book, The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby.


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0:00.0

And the The From the Hellaconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of

0:38.0

Hellacon, and dance on soft feet about the deep blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Kronos.

0:48.0

And when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the horse's spring or olemyus make their fair lovely dances

0:57.6

upon highest helicon and move with vigorous feet.

1:03.1

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the Aegis bearr and queenly hera of Argos who walks on

1:18.0

golden sandals and the daughter of Zeus the eegis holder bright-eyed Athena and Phoebus Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows

1:29.3

and Poseid and the earth shaker who shakes the earth, and Reverend Famous, and quick glancing

1:36.6

Aphrodite and Hebe with the crown of gold, and fair Dion, Lido, yapidus, and Fair Dion, Lido, Yapetus, and Kronos, the Crafty Councilor.

1:48.1

Eos and Great Helius and Bright Saline. Earth, too, and Great Oceanous and Dark Night and the Holy Race of all the other Deathless

1:58.9

ones that are forever. Come thou let us begin with the muses who gladden the great spirit of their father, Zeus,

2:08.6

in Olympus with their songs, telling of things that are and that shall be and that were a for time with consenting voice.

2:17.0

Unwearing flows the sweet sound from their lips and the house of their father Zeus the loud thunderer, is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses

2:28.6

as it spread abroad, and the peakserily Olympus resound and the homes of the Immortals.

2:36.0

And they, uttering their immortal voice,

2:40.0

celebrate in song first of all the Reverend race of the gods from the beginning, those

2:46.6

whom earth and wide heaven begot, and the gods sprung of these giver of things. Then next the goddesses sing of Zeus, the father of gods

2:56.7

and men, as they begin and end their strain how much he is the most excellent among the gods and supreme in power.

3:05.0

And again they chant the race of men and strong giants

3:10.0

and gladden the heart of Zeus within Olympus,

3:13.4

the Olympian Muses, daughters of Zeus the Aegis holder.

3:18.4

Them in Pyria did Nemosony who rains over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son

3:26.1

of Kronos, a forgetting of ills, and arrest from sorrow.

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