Keeping Up with the Classics

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keeping up with the classics

9 episodes

1 week ago

In Keeping Up with the Classics, your hosts Maddie and Farabee delve into a variety of our favourite myths and focus on some of the most complex and fascinating female characters these myths have to offer. Spanning from academic topics to modern-day parallels with a thorough, yet humorous, eye, we hope to provide light-hearted entertainment as we explore what is often perceived as a subject far removed from the modern world.

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Keeping Up with the Classics - Persephone

Keeping Up with the Classics

24 minutes 43 seconds

4 years ago

Keeping Up with the Classics - Persephone

Yes, you saw that right. Having been resurrected from the dead (no thanks to Boris Johnson), we are back with another episode at long last. This time, we broadened our focus from a mythological woman to an entire goddess: Persephone! We turned to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, evaluated just how 'bad' of a person Hades is in comparison to other male gods (*cough* Zeus), Farabee had a tirade in defence of Demeter being wrongly cast as the archetypal 'over-bearing' mother, and we even talked about the doomed romance of Orpheus and Eurydice. Ranging from the musical 'Hadestown' to discussing the lens which Christianity lends to a modern audience’s perception of Hades (is he the devil incarnate?), this is a chaotic and much-anticipated episode. We hope you enjoy!

TW: kidnapping; mass murder.