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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Minotaur, Part 2: Minoan Crete with Nicoletta Momigliano

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

To fully understand the minotaur myth, we also have to consider the Minoan civilization of Crete. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe chat with Professor Nicoletta Momigliano, author of “In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete.” Learn all about ancient Creteomania as well as modern artistic treatments of the minotaur.

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0:00.0

I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar.

0:03.2

If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.

0:05.2

Amber, get on with it.

0:06.2

Okay everybody, we have exciting news to share.

0:08.4

We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our

0:11.8

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0:15.0

We did it.

0:16.0

We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games

0:19.8

with friends and take you along for the ride.

0:22.4

Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money

0:26.1

Players Network on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.3

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:44.1

Hey welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamar and I'm Joe McCormick

0:48.8

and we're back going into the labyrinth again.

0:51.3

This is going to be the second part of our series on the Minotaur for this October.

0:55.9

I'm so excited because in addition to talking more about the maze and the monster, today

1:01.0

we're going to be interviewing a professor who specializes in the history of my No and

1:05.5

Crete.

1:06.5

That's right, we're delighted to have Nicoletta Momilliano, a professor of the Gian studies

1:11.8

at the University of Bristol on the show.

1:14.1

She's the author of the new book In Search of the Labyrinth, the cultural legacy of Minot

1:19.7

and Crete, which is available now in paperback, hardback and is an ebook.

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