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Oct 2024
45m 47s

Liv Reads Ovid: Three (Relevant) Heroide...

Liv Albert
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Liv reads three letters of Ovid's Heroides: Dido to Aeneas, Deianeira to Hercules, and Phyllis to Demophoon, to prepare for Friday's conver Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes! Sign up for the Iris' Rainbow newsletter!

CW/TW: Today's episode specifically references suicide, though brief.

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

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