Natalie Haynes - The Conversation 2024

Rock-star classicist Natalie Haynes explores the greatest goddesses. Part of The Conversation 2024.
NARRATIVE LEDGER
01.25 cut the beginning and open here with “one of the joys…”
03.49 Aphrodite: creation, family, terrible choice of partners
08.41 Helen of Troy and consent
13.20 What are you praying for?
17.00 Hera: I have questions…
22.35 Demeter: Homeric hymns and Russian chicken sheds
26.12 Ovid’s Roman take
28.39 Hestia Goddess of Cake and the unwise Vestal Virgins
35.08 Athene loves Odysseus
36.48 Ajax and Achilles’ shield, Odysseus and the god delusion 42.50 Athene out-Areses Ares
46.48 Athene: Art and Statues
50.23 The Muses and the Furies
53.23 Gender balance on Olympia and in Athens
58.00 Lizzo and Cardi B go Greek
1.01.16 Taylor Swift & Aphrodite
ENDS