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Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XI

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Old Translations of Corn

i have no idea how to actually pronounce that king's name which is too bad because that story was really lovely and emotional and like cakes sound so weird anyway it spelled like c-e-y-x i don't know i didn't have a better guess also in answer to a question that somebody asked me for the q and a episode but it came in just too late i think i had just recorded when i saw it they brought up the fact that a lot of these old translations including today's episode use the word corn. There wasn't corn in europe um you know in the ancient world and it's one of those things it's like old translations and i'm sure someone has written

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