Hello, and welcome to another spooky special.

I am Liv, and this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, here for all your spooky scary needs.

Today we are revisiting an episode from last year, another, I spoke with Antonia Aleuko,

whose well-versed in the world of ancient witchcraft, and intersectionality, and so much

more.

Antonia and I discussed the famed Greek witches, Cersei and Medea, but specifically, how

they appear in the very Roman ovid's work.

Because well, they're particularly fascinating in that context, they're unique as hell,

there is just, there's so much more to this episode, how Medea serves as a foreigner,

how both of them are Greek, but being written by a Roman and how that contrasts to Roman

witches, it's endless and endlessly spooky.

Conversations, witch, witch is the best witch, ovid's Medea and Cersei with Antonia Aleuko.

Witchcraft, but then it was like intersectionality as well, right, like tell me what you studied,

it's so exciting.

So it's a little general intro about me, I'm doing a first year PhD student, and I'm doing

my PhD at UCL, University College London, and my projects on witches and intersectionality,

but specifically, like the intersectionality of magic use and gender and ethnicity in imperial

Latin text.

It's a bit of a novel, yeah, but interesting, yeah.

So what I'm kind of really focused on is kind of viewing witches as intersectional beings

in the ancient world, especially because of their characterizations which kind of set them

off as like a ethnicity within itself.

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