Monsters in Classical Myth

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Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Johanna Hanink

37 episodes

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Inger Kuin joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic (Basic Books 2025). Ancient sources Aristotle, Politics 1.3-7 (on 'natural' slavery)Diogenes Laertius, 2.6, Life of DiogenesPlutarch, Life of Alexander 14 (on the 'get out of my sun' episode)Xenophon, Anabasis 5-6 (on Sinope, Diogenes' birthplace)Other Diogenes testimonia from a variety of sourcesFor an accessible English-language collectio...

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Monsters in Classical Myth

Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

57 minutes

7 months ago

Monsters in Classical Myth

Debbie Felton and Carolina López-Ruiz join me to discuss monsters -- and what they mean and represent -- in classical mythology. Debbie is the editor of the new Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, to which Carolina contributed a chapter on the Sphinx. Ancient sources Apollonius of Rhodes, MedeaAvianus/Aesop, "The Satyr and the Traveler"Euripides, MedeaHerodotus (esp. 3.38, on the Callatiae)Hesiod, TheogonyPalaephatus, "On Unbelivable Tales" (Περὶ ἀπίστων)Plato, PhaedrusTheocri...