Conversations: Modern Mythologizing, Hellenizing Apuleius, Psyche & Eros w/ Luna McNamara
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Mystery of Samothrace
The island of Samothrace has this like completely wild and mysterious island, not least because it has a mystery cult. And we know almost nothing about it. It's one of the only kind of inclusions in another larger myth. They still don't know what gods were associated with the mystery cult. But it was like a vitally important mystery cult. Like the Argonauts, they go there and they get inducted. There's more detail in like a very late and ridiculous source called knownness.
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