Mythology Translated Second Edition

By Roxanne

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What's Mythology Translated Second Edition about?

A sometimes snarky, often irreverent summary of Mythology by culture based on the literature that survives to our time and sometimes doesn't. Starting with Greek Myth with an attempt to keep to an internal chronology when one exists.

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009 - The Many Wives Of Zeus

08.30.2020

In which we go over the basics of the Olympians, discuss the options towards the number of Significant Others Zeus has before settling on Hera, and I have some Opinions on the matter. Also a bit on Practical Religion Vs ...

Mythology Translated Second Edition episodes:

08.30.2020 009 - The Many Wives Of Zeus In which we go over the basics of the Olympians, discuss the options towards the number of Significant Others Zeus has before settling on Hera, and I have some Opinions on the matter. Also a bit on Practical Religion Vs ...
08.22.2020 Episode 8 – It’s All Fun and Games Til Someone Dies Horribly This week we are talking about the Titanmache, The Final Battle of the Titanmache because that is the only battle where anything happened anyway, The further pissing off of Gaia and The Divvying of Lots
08.15.2020 007 - The Completely Arbitrary Nature of The Cosmos In which we talk about source chains, the positive aspects of being pedantic and ponder over lost sources.
08.09.2020 006 - Baby Zeus Is Still Zeus In This episode we cover Zeus formative years, His first wife, his stunning ability to hold is alcohol and get all ready to rumble! At the End there is Bonus Millie Bird as she was having some pretty amusing opinions ...
08.03.2020 005 - Trauma Is A Thing In Which we finish up our begetting, Kronos tries to work thru some stuff and Rhea gets both confused and played.
07.11.2020 002 - Jiggling Kaos In Which we start creating the universe and get introduced to our primal forces. A short episode as next time we get into the Begets!
11.21.2018 079 – Where To Start? We start the Theban Cycle with the story of Oedipus.
11.12.2018 078 – Sophocles As Pop Music Today we are looking at the Life and Legacy of Sophocles as prelude to the Theban cycle of myth.
11.08.2018 077 – Still Think We Need More Laminating This episode we go over the Sources for Meleager and the story of the Two Atalanta while I so subtle bemoan the lack of clear sources we have.
11.07.2018 075.5 – Extra Credit 015 – Location, Location, Location We look at the start of the Minoan Civilization and how the island was perfectly suited to the dominate roll that it played.
11.07.2018 075.4 – Extra Credit 014 – Theoretical Invasion A look at the start of mainland Greece’s History, which is pretty boring at this point.
11.07.2018 75.3 – Extra Credit 013 – The Guys With the Pretty Statues Looking at the Cyclades Civilization at it’s start and height.
11.07.2018 075.2 – Extra Credit 013 – Tools Of The Trade Continuing the Bronze Age we look at how we have the information we do.
11.07.2018 075.1 – Extra Credit 012 – Recursive History A Small break in topic where I spend some time talking about the actual history of Greece.
11.07.2018 063.5 – Extra Credit 011 – Euripides Medea or Athenian Playwrights are hard on myth A look at the play The Medea, the impact it most likely had upon it’s first audience and why the change in the myth
11.07.2018 057.5 – Extra Credit 010 – Really Y’all? Pt 3 – In Hook A short and snarky history of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Covering The Rest of the Royal Line, Ptolemy IX Soter II, Ptolemy X Alexander I, Cleopatra Berenice III Thea Philopator, Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysus, Cleopatra VII Thea ...
11.07.2018 056.5 – Extra Credit 009 – Really Y’all? Pt 2 – Stop DOING That A short and snarky history of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Covering: Ptolemy IV Philopater, Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Ptolemy VI Philometor, Cleopatra II, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Kakaergetes) , Ptolemy VII Neo Philopater, Ptolemy IX Soter II,
11.04.2018 055.5 – Extra Credit 008 – Really Y’all? Pt 1 The Good Ones A short and snarky history of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Covering: Ptolemy I Soter I, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, and Ptolemy III Euergetes I
11.04.2018 054 – Extra Credit 007 – Book Burning A History of the Library of Alexandria
11.04.2018 053.5 – Extra Credit 006 – Shades of Lies A discussion on different terms
11.04.2018 052.5 – Extra Credit 005 – Herculean Sources Running Down the Sources of the Herakles myth chronologically
11.04.2018 040 – Extra Credit 004 – Art and Myth Greek Vase Edition An Extra credit discussion on Greek Vases
10.29.2018 076 – The Hunting of The Boar The Boar Hunt is here! and not as well sourced or as intensive as I had hoped. Featuring the Death Of Anceaus, a random Eurytion, and Meleager Featuring the Introduction of Oeneus of Caldon, The Sons of Thetius and Althaea ...
10.01.2018 027 – Extra Credit 3 – Nymph-O-Mania: Who The beep Are These Guys? Warning, R rated language and content in this one.
09.26.2018 022 – Extra Credit 02 – Euripides Bacchae Or Don’t Piss Off The Gods When I was originally working on the Extra Credits This Episode came after Episode on Medea. I decided to put it here.
09.14.2018 012 – Extra Credit 1 – Prometheus Bound Our first Extra Credit episode dealing with the play Prometheus Bound. We cover the problems with translation, The Manuscript tradition of the play, a discussion of weather or not Aeschylus wrote it and if so the time frame it was ...
09.03.2017 075 – Bits and Bobs – The Continuing Saga of Minos Family and That other guy Auto-Cannibalism, Blasphemy, Shape-Shifting and Slave trading are all on the menu today and that is just the first story! We cover three stories, one on Erysichthon who pissed off Demeter and apparently had a shape shifting daughter, The story of ...
08.10.2017 State Of Podcast 2017 It is August! which means it is State Of The Podcast Time! Where I catch you up on my end of the Podcast and what is going on with me. Feel free to skip if you like and if this ...
08.10.2017 074 – Musing On Muses We Take a second and highlight the Muses in Myth. Though their myths tend towards one specific story, It is pretty interesting what everyone has to say about them so I thought I would share.
07.23.2017 073 – Another Jaunt To The Underworld We cover Orpheus, Eurydice and Orpheus’s occasional big brother Linus. We go over the decent into the underworld, The toss up as to whether or not he was killed by Maenads or just really pissed off Thracian women and discuss ...
07.08.2017 Delay Notice Been Rough week. Adjusting to new meds and lost a ferret. Will be back in two weeks with Orpheus, Linus and The Muses.
06.25.2017 072 – Of Timing And Stars We cover Orion today! His blinding and somehow or another usual death by Artemis’s hand and a bit about how upset I was to find that he too falls into the Sex Offender Category
06.11.2017 071 – Nobody Likes The Undead We are talking about the great healer of Greek Myth. Who might have been a Lich, Aesculapius! famous for raising the dead, in apparently a larger amount than I remembered and was smote for doing so. Sometimes.
05.27.2017 070 – The Theoretical Death of Theseus We finish up Theseus today! Covering Peirthous Bad Idea, Theseus kidnapping Helen as a child and his ignoble death by the hands of some guy. Unless he never came out of the underworld.
05.14.2017 069 – Theseus Knows Some Interesting People In which we cover the uprising against Theseus, the random going out of his way to irate the amazons, the story of Phaedra and Hippolytus, and touch on another divine sex change story. Correction it is at the 4 dollar ...
04.30.2017 068 – A Surprisingly Persistent Crown Theseus takes a small vacation in Crete, Defeats the Labyrinth with whatever Ariadne happened to have in her pocket and we follow the consequences of his actions up to the death of Minos.
04.15.2017 067 – Bye Medea! Theseus gets to Athens, meets a nice little ol’ lady, captures and kills a rampaging bull, almost get poisoned and Volunteers for Tribute. Medea leaves our mythological stage in a fit of pique and sometimes rescues her father on the ...
03.30.2017 Announcement As mentioned on Twitter earlier this week, I have news! I think Happy News that I want to share with everyone.
03.21.2017 066 – Your Money Or My Life We kick off the official start of Theseus story as he wanders along the coast killing a bunch of bandits thru… well mostly brute strength. We cover 5 bandits who all have an interesting gimmick, two of which involve monsters ...
03.11.2017 065 – Not The Guy From The Hunger Games A surprise academic episode! It turns out, to my surprise, that Plutarch is a necessary source of the frame work for story of Theseus. So this week we are looking at Plutarch and his life work “Parallel Lives”.
02.25.2017 064 – You Know Who Else Has Kings? Athens A look at the Athenian Kings list, which includes a suprising, if not excessive amount of Lizard People. Plus Procis is back. We cover up until Theseus’s conception and his sometimes fathers happy third marriage. Bonus Herakles thought Jason was ...
02.11.2017 063 – From Queen To Outcast As we wrap up the discusion on Medea and Jason we talk about Child Murder. A lot. We discuss the options of Jason’s death and I finally explain why I hate this guy so hard. Also this episode as a ...
01.29.2017 062 – It Is All In The Seasoning Medea introduces the daughter of Pelias to a Stew Recipe and Pelias gets his comeuppance for something or another. Aeson and his family dies… Sometimes. Acastus gets the throne of Ioclus and kicks our couple the hell out of his ...
01.14.2017 061 – Someone Read The Odyssey We are covering the Voyage of the Argo from when they leave Circe’s Island to the defeat of Talos, mostly following Apollonius as he is still the closest to a canonical source for the material for all this sequence of ...
01.07.2017 060 – Born To Die We are on the return trip of the Argo, but there are options as to how that trip goes. We discuss the death of Absyrtus who was added into Mythology just to die horribly and have his corpse desecrated and ...
12.31.2016 059 – Keep Dreaming Jason meets Aeetes, the beloved son of Helios and Medea the Beloved daughter of Aeetes. He starts off on the wrong foot but everything is made better by godly intervention and he pulls off some admittedly spectacular stuff. Then sneaks ...
12.03.2016 058 – Side Effects Include Blindness We are covering the last leg of the Argo journey to Colchis and most looking at the eye watering variations of Phineus. People Die, Speed metal is invented and we get another solid reason to be careful of how you ...
11.20.2016 057 – Sexy Times Back to earning our Explicit tag with Sex, Murder and a possible case of Humanitarianism, cause it isn’t cannibalism if your not human to begin with. We follow the first leg of the journey of the Argo to Lemnos where ...
11.07.2016 056 – Party Balance This week we tackle the list of Argonauts thru the three surviving lists we have. It’s a lot of names, some really interesting asides and up until Apollonius goes nuts on us a solid party of adventures. Final Total: 5 ...
10.22.2016 Halloween Bonus – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Lucian For All Hallow’s Eve I thought I would share the original version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with you all. It comes from The Lover of Lies by Lucian. Where the whole story is a group of guys telling ghost and ...

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