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Jan 2025
50m 24s

Greek Myth is So Much More Than Terrible...

Liv Albert
About this episode

What makes a myth, and what does that mean? Liv looks at mythology as a concept and the sources that shared it with us.

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.

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