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Conversations: A Journey Aboard the Argo, the Many Myths of the Argonautika w/ Helen Lovatt

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

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Graves: A Greek Mythology

Graves is interesting because he's got this obsession with female power and women, you know, like the whole of his retelling of the Golden Fleswers before he wrote the Greek myths. But at the same time, he's still really misogynist in all sorts of ways, objectifiers and sexualizes women. So it's, it's really bizarre. And I suppose I don't use it now for, for sourcing, but it is certainly interesting to like kind of look at what his thought process was too.

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