What Does it Meant to Rebel? (Ancient) Resistance to Imperial Violence

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Revisiting the story of Europa of Tyre alongside the true story of the siege of Milos. Submit to the quarterly Q&A at mythsbaby.com/questions and get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby

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: Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, translated by HG Evelyn-White; Nonnus' Dionysiaca translated by WHD Rouse; Reading from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley.

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1:58.6	Music Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. So she, Europa, crossed the briny water from afar to Crete, beguiled by the wiles of Zeus.
2:07.2	Secretly did the father snatch her away and gave her a gift, the golden necklace, the toy which
2:14.0	Hephaestus, the famed craftsman once made by his cunning skill, and brought and gave it to
2:20.3	his father for a possession. And Zeus received the gift and gave it in turn to the daughter of
2:26.6	proud Phoenix. But when the father of men and of gods had mated so far off with trim-ankeled Europa, then he departed back again from the rich-haired girl.
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