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

So Much More Than Just Achilles’ Mother, the Strong-Willed Saviour Thetis

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

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

She may have been mother to one of the most famous heroes, but Thetis did and meant so much more. Check out more episodes on strong women of Greek myth and women of history on this Spotify playlist. 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.

Sources: Homer's Iliad, translated by A.T. Murray; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Theoi.com entry on Thetis.

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

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kotao looks like a postcard.

0:22.0

It's almost like if you were going to imagine a paradise island or draw a picture of one, that's what Kotao looks like.

0:28.0

Young tourists from all over the world visit the pristine beaches and crystal clear water.

0:33.0

But underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:38.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island and cast its shadow.

0:43.0

Death, mystery and danger.

0:47.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:53.0

One thing is certain, in this beautiful place, no coast is clear.

1:00.0

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1:09.0

But you, if you are able, guard your own son, go to Olympus and make prayer to Zeus, if ever you have gladdened his heart by word or deed.

1:25.0

For often I have heard you gloring in the halls of my father and declaring that you alone among the Immortals warded off shameful ruin from the son of Kronos Lord of the Dark Clouds.

1:38.0

On the day when the other Olympians wished to put him in bonds, even Hera and Poseidon and Palis Athena, but you came goddess and freed him from his bonds, when you had quickly called to high Olympus him of the hundred hands,

1:54.0

whom the gods call Brioarius, but all men call Igion, for he is mightier than his father.

2:02.0

He sat down by the side of the son of Kronos exulting in his glory, and the blessed gods were seized with fear of him and did not find Zeus.

2:13.0

Bring this now to his remembrance and sit by his side and clasp his knees in hope that he might perhaps wish to succor the Trojans, and for those others the Akans to pen them in among the sterns of their ships and around the sea as they are slain, so that they might all have profit of their king, and that the son of Atreus wide ruling Agamemnon may know his blindness in that he did no honor.

2:42.0

To the best of the Akans.

2:47.0

Oh, hi, hello there. This is Let's Talk About Miss Baby, and I am that host of yours. Live.

3:03.0

Well, that's before he had to say is finished, and I could not possibly be more thankful for that. I want to once again emphasize how good my conversation episodes are on the play, and how much they help with the understanding and appreciation away from the world.

3:16.0

I really don't. I really struggled with those more than I ever have before, and frankly I feel like this is about them. It's just already it's about them. So no, we're moving on today with something that I'm not going to say.

3:46.0

I know I can actually do well, and well, it's still women's history month, and thank fuck for that. I'm here to make up for Daining to cover that fucking play for women's history month.

3:57.0

So today we're talking about one particular woman from the Trojan War, a woman that I did not talk enough about back in those early episodes, because that I didn't really have a good grasp on her as a goddess in her own right, and how to research her beyond the sources that I knew.

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