The King is Broken, Battered, and Bloody… Long Live the Queen! (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part 4)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The king is dead and the queen killed him; Clytemnestra is ready to bask in the glory of her accomplishments... and introduce the man who helped her, just a little. Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby. Enter our podcast guest form if you'd like to be on the show as a conversation guest!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. I try to provide direct warnings when there is reference to anything with overtly traumatic themes but be aware that Greek mythology regularly features assault, death, and many other potentially triggering events.
Sources: Agamemnon by Aeschylus, primarily using translations by Anne Carson (from An Oresteia) and Sarah Ruden (from The Greek Plays); translation and original Greek from Perseus Project; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Topostext.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, nerds, I'm just here with a quick bit of news. So if you've ever thought of splurging on a trip to a couple of Greek islands and Athens, and you want to do it with me in October of this year, check the link in this episode's description or go to mythsbaby.com slash group trip for more information. It's happening. |
| 0:20.0 | Highlights include following in Ariadne's footsteps as she flees the dreaded Theseus. |
| 0:25.6 | Mythsbaby.com slash grouptrip. |
| 1:02.2 | Music The Hi, hello there. Welcome. |
| 1:06.7 | This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I am your host, Liv. |
| 1:15.4 | Absolutely obsessed with this series on Iscalis's Agamemnon and just it's fucking joyful. |
| 1:17.3 | And, you know, it's funny. |
| 1:18.4 | This is one of those plays. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm so excited that I decided to choose it for this moment, especially, you know, when it's been me trying to get back into writing these scripts after so long, but also, like, whilst I watch feminism, what little we had of equality sort of drain away due to late stage capitalistic patriarchal bullshittery. |
| 1:46.0 | And, you know, it's just been, it's been hard. |
| 1:48.5 | It's been hard to like be like, oh, I've been doing this for eight years. |
| 1:52.3 | And I have been, you know, sharing all of this stuff and discussing all of these wider gender issues. |
| 1:58.7 | And in those eight years, the progress that we did have has um is just like |
| 2:05.5 | actively being reversed it's like super cool it's super cool that like every week there's a new |
| 2:12.7 | investigative article about just how many men are actually working together to drug and rape their |
| 2:21.4 | wives. |
| 2:22.1 | Like, there's like so many parts of the internet that are actively teaching that and |
| 2:27.5 | facilitating it and like, just, just guys like sharing, sharing their knowledge. |
| 2:38.0 | So. guys like sharing, sharing their knowledge. So anyway, you know, I got a super misandrous tattoo the other day and now I wrote this |
| 2:45.9 | episode. So it's been a little cathartic. It's been a little cathartic. Yeah. And this one, I mean, we're going |
| 2:53.7 | out with a bang. This, I'm again, again, so glad I picked this one. And this is one of those things. |
| 2:59.5 | Like, I've talked about this a lot of time, a lot. But I, I mean, I haven't re-read the Agamemnon in a long |
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