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May 2020
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Europa & Minos’ Bull Dynasty, the Marath...

Liv Albert
About this episode

The mythological history of Minoan Crete's obsession with bulls is dark and wildly, terribly entertaining. Bulls, baby, bulls.

 

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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Sources: Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology translated by Robin Hard, Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton; The Greek Myths by Robert Graves. Theoi.com.

 

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