Things Were Marginally Better for Them! The Women of Sparta (Ancient Sparta & the Spartan Mirage Part 4)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of the Spartan series, Liv goes through the lives of Spartan women. From worshipping and dancing with Helen to having your brother in law's babies, Spartan women had interesting and unique lives. 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: Lyra Graeca: being the remains of all the Greek lyric poets from Eumelus to Timotheus excepting Pindar by JM Edwards; “Spartan Women” from A Companion to Sparta, Volume II by Ellen G Millender; Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy; Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes; “Land Tenure and Inheritance in Classical Sparta” from The Classical Quarterly by Stephen Hodkinson; “The Women of Sparta” from The Classical Journal by James Redfield.
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| 0:00.0 | And so, as for me, I sing now of the light that is Aguros. |
| 0:12.0 | Bright I see it as the very suns which the same Aguro now invokes to shine upon us. |
| 0:19.9 | And yet neither praise nor blame can I give at all to such as she without offense to |
| 0:26.0 | our splendid leader, who herself appears as preeminent as would a well-knit steed |
| 0:33.2 | of ringing hoof that overcomes in the race if he were set to graze among the unsubstantial |
| 0:39.4 | cattle of our dreams that fly. |
| 0:43.0 | See you not first that the coarser is of anetic blood, and secondly that the tresses that |
| 0:48.5 | bloom upon my cousin, Haggisikara, are like the purest gold. |
| 0:54.3 | But as for her silver face how shall I put it to you in express words, such is Haggisikara. |
| 1:01.4 | And yet she whose beauty shall run second not unto hers, but unto Aguros, shall run as |
| 1:08.2 | coarser colaxian, to pure Ibenian bread, for as we bear along her robe to orthia. |
| 1:16.9 | These our doves rise to fight for us amid the embarrosial night, not as those heavenly |
| 1:23.6 | doves, but brighter, I even as serious himself. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm journalist and I'm Morton in my podcast City of the Rails. |
| 1:37.7 | I plunge into the dark world of America's railroads searching for my daughter Ruby, who ran |
| 1:42.4 | off to hop train. |
| 1:44.4 | I'm just like stuck on this train, not where I'm going to end up, and I jump. |
| 1:50.4 | During my daughter I found a secret city of unforgettable characters living outside society, |
| 1:55.5 | off the grid and on the edge. |
| 1:58.4 | I was in love with the lifestyle and the freedom this community. |
| 2:02.4 | No one understands who we truly are. |
| 2:05.6 | The Rails made me question everything I knew about motherhood, history, and the thing we |
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