Continuing on with the Bronze Age history of Greece, a look at the famed Mycenaeans, the historical origins behind the mythic heroes of Homer. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: The Landmark Thucydides edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Richard Crawley; The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean edited by Eric H. Cline; Rodney Castleden's Mycenaeans; Alkestis Papadimitriou and Elsi Spathari's Mycenae: A journey in the World of Agamemnon.
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Liv Reads Thucydides: Classical Greece's Mythical History
Conversations: When the Network Went Down, the Bronze Age Collapse w/ Dr Eric H Cline
Conversations: The Evidence is in the Thigh Bone, Climate and Collapse in the Bronze Age w/ Dr Flint Dibble
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper, the Collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Conversations: From Homer, With Love… The Evolution of Oral Storytelling w/ Dr Joel Christensen
How History Becomes Mythology, Bronze Age Greece in the Wider Mediterranean
Conversations: The Things They Found in Tombs, Bronze Age Mycenae w/ Dr Kim Shelton
There Once Was a Man Named Minos, the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete
The Bronze Age, Mythic Origins and the Real People Behind Them
Conversations: Charybdis, a Gaping, Hungry Hole; Fear of the Monstrous Woman w/ Cosi Carnegie
High Priestess of Ur, the World’s First Author, Enheduanna
LTAMB: The Bronze Age Collapse Coming April 2
Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Book 3)
BONUS: Selections from Conversations w/ Dr Melissa Funke and Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Beloved of Aphrodite, the Lives & Legacies of Ancient Greek Sex Workers
Conversations: Better Off With Bears, Artemis & Goddess Worship w/ Dr Carla Ionescu
What Makes a Monster? What if Ovid's Medusa Was Thinly Veiled Misogyny
On Circe's Island Anything is Possible, Queer Theory w/ Julia Perroni
Parthenogenesis, Prehistoric Goddesses, and the Threat of an Independent Woman
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