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Oct 2024
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Liv Reads Ancient Spooky: Speeches from ...

Liv Albert
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Liv reads speeches from Seneca's Thyestes and Agamemnon, translated by Frank Justus Miller. Ask your questions for the next Q&A episode here!

This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title! For a list of Roman/Latin names and who they were in the Greek, visit: mythsbaby.com/names

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.


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