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A Dramatic Ship Race & Someone Lands in Blood and Dung (The Aeneid Part 8)
FromLet's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
A Dramatic Ship Race & Someone Lands in Blood and Dung (The Aeneid Part 8)
FromLet's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Sep 29, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Abandoning queens! Burial anniversary celebrations! Funereal ship races! Aeneas and the Trojans set off from Carthage, but there is more in their way. They must land on Sicily where they take the opportunity to hold some anniversary funereal rites for Aeneas's father, Anchises. Plus, a ghost!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: The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Sarah Ruden.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Sep 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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