Hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live now the episode I have

for you today I've been telling you all about it I could not be more excited that I got to speak with

Bettany Hughes who is so knowledgeable when it comes to ancient Greek everything but specifically the role of women which

obviously is something I want to talk to everyone about all the time. So speaking with somebody as fascinating and interesting

as Bettany was a huge thrill and a highlight of my whole time

doing this podcast. So that is what today's episode is. We talked

all about Aphrodite, everyone's favorite goddess of love and sex.

This is episode 98, the Kipprian

the Kipprian Venus Aphrodite, a conversation with Bettony Hughes.

Very excited to talk to you today about Aphrodite of all people she's always been one of my absolute

favorites kind of how I got into mythology and I absolutely loved reading your book so

thank you so much for sitting down with me today. Oh pleasure title pleasure. So why don't we just start you want to tell me a little bit about the book Aphrodite in Venus?

Yeah, well so the book in a way is a life story of a goddess and I have to say when I started

writing it and when I was talking to people about doing it they said you are crazy because first of all how can you write a life story of somebody who didn't exist?

And also, how can you write a life story of somebody who's immortal?

So the very point is that she has no kind of beginning or end really.

So how's it's going to work.

But I just wanted to dive deep into her narrative because as you know,

she's an incredible creature and she's much more complex and

complicated than most people think and I also think she's a remarkable

goddess to spend time in the company of because when you follow her trail through time

it's almost as though she's holding your hand through the story of the human experience

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