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I remember, about 25 years ago, learning about the K'ung San, who still live in the Kalahari Desert of southwestern Africa. Their culture is, perhaps, the oldest continuous, uninterrupted culture in the world. And, given that Africa is the mother of us all, their culture is probably closer to what all our ancestors lived than any other we know about now. Like the Jomon, of Japan, they never developed agriculture, but they lived a rich, healthy life in relatively stable communities whose locations varied little over time. They were not perfect, but they lived well. And their culture survived for 10s of thousands of years. Unfortunately, about 50 years ago, the governments that rule in that part of Africa, started to "domesticate" them. The result is what thousands of years of history could not do before, the virtual destruction of their traditional way of life. Now, most of them live in poverty on reserves of one sort or another. To make a bit of money, they sometimes perform manual labor for their more "advanced" neighbors, who basically hold them in contempt for being a "backward" people. Sigh.

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I really appreciate you giving the page number of your quotes. 👍

You ask the guy for Assyrian books for newbies, and he gives you general surveys of the entire freaking Ancient Near East! Lol! "The Might that Was Assyria" H.W.F. Saggs . It has its limitations yet is free of the modern political dreck that infuses almost everything we read these days. Amazon sellers want $82 bucks for used copies, search used bookstores or go to your local University library instead. I think you can read it for free online as well. "Ancient Iraq" Georges Roux A concise general survey of the ANE, yet you can just read the Assyrian chapters and you're off to the races. Assyria had three capitals: one military, one administrative and one cultural. When Ninevah was destroyed, it was never reoccupied, hence a giant time capsule! We have the library of Assurbanipal, a treasure of limitless value. For popular culture, Pazuzu, an Assyrian storm demon, is the villain of The Exorcist. His nemesis was a female demon akin to Lilith, so mothers wore his amulet to protect their babies. Hence the line from the film "Evil against Evil" Annoy your friends with your newfound wisdom when watching this old flick.

I have this book waiting for me in my book case - good incentive to actually start reading it :D

Hey, just came across your channel as i bought Mythos, half way through the first chapter. Already loving it! A question but, i wouldn't be a huge reader but have really gotten into it lately, just finished traitors gate from Jeffrey Archer (Was really good too), the issue with the likes of these Stephen Fry books is all the information that will be in them. Do you have any advice on how best to read and maximise the retention of all the facts. My memory is so bad!lol Thanks

Love this collaboration. Cute 'Italy' necklace Erica. Give me a shout when you get your affiliate link. I'll probably get the paperback edition so I can talk about it on my channel but I want to make Bezos pay you your dues since I wouldn't have found Raven if not for your channel.

Thank you!

I hope to read this book soon. It sounds like a novel presentation, or history the way it should be presented.

So far as the Indus valley goes, their current descendants, Hindus of India keep their own histories. There are translations if much of this material available. To put it another way, is still an intact culture.

Hopefully, you could do research on pre-colonial Philippines.

The movie Princess Mononoke is sorta a reimagining of the meeting between the Emishi/Jomon people and the Iron Age Yayoi, It’s crazy to think that the Japanese and the Ainu of Hokkaido can be considered heirs of the Jomon, and how luck it is that we still have memory of these people

I know about the nok only because I'm someone who actively seeks out ancient relatively unknown black African civilizations like Kush, great Zimbabwe etc.

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This is going to be great. I love both of your TH-cam channels. Keep up the fantastic work! 👍👍

TWENTY-SEVEN-THOUSAND subscribers! 🎉 30k by end of month??? Btw: You are getting 90k-100k views per month now. That's nice-and-steady momentum. 🚀 That is like 3,000 views per day... every day.

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Do you recommend reading each book and then reading watching? Or watching and then reading?

I have Hesiod in poetry and prose. I prefer the poetry.

Good interview. I bought this book when it came out last year - it's one of the best books I've read in the last year.

Listen you dumbfucking weirdo and vibrating ass dildo please speak properly when you're explaining

Great interview, I also really enjoyed his book.

That last bit on how to get people interested in history is actually the exact question I've wanted answered for a while now. Bless the Worthy of Gold!

Fraid I'm going to take that dip out, but I'll be back for the later half!

I loved this interview and last weekend I found the book in a bookstore! Thank you.

Ever since book 1 of the odyssey, I have been waiting for this book.

Of course Paris picked Aphrodite. She had an unfair advantage, given that she was naked while the other two were fully clothed.

Jiasas, it was a pomegranate, not an apple.

Unfortunately, they didn't give any gift to Pisistratus lol, which is kinda funny because he asks telemachus to wait for the gifts.

From my recollection of reading the Odyssey as a teen, the impression I got from the women were quite negative. They were detractors from Odysseus getting home. They were there to make Penelope look that much better. Now, I understand it is more complex but that was my initial impression. I would love a modern female empowering version of Medusa but I understand for that version to work it would mean modernizing all the gods and goddesses and essentially change the narrative of the mythology altogether. It would be a new mythology. And I accept that. Haha.

Life saver to have this interpretation, thanks!

Have you heard of Dr. Ammon Hillman?

This is great, will read, I have read a fair bit about Medea in Ovid, Seneca, Euripedes etc… and agree, she is a fascinating protagonist.

Stephen Fry is a personal hero of mine. Love his work, and yours! Keep it up Erica!

This is very helpful, thanks for all your efforts you put out there❤❤

Your way of explaining is fascinating ❤❤

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Thank you for this interview. I am a big fan of Eric Cline and i cant wait to read his next book. It seems like the bronze age collapse ended god kings and the iron age gave us democracy. Was there a significant change in philosophy after the collapse or was it just a greek thing?

If you’re into the story of Clytemnestra, Costanza Casati’s book by the same name is a triumph! I’ve never felt quite so connected to a character’s rage than in this take on the myth. Highly recommend!

" Give yourself a gift. The present moment" Marcus Aurelius

Fabulous episode - it just fly by so quickly, would happily have kept watching.

Thank you for this. I took the train from Athens to Thiva, and spent several days there, seeing the Archeological Museum, spending lunches in the town square, and a taxi driver took me to Luectra, where Epaminondas of Thebes defeated the Spartans. I have Cartledge's book, Thebes, but have not yet read it. Now I will!

It is a bit frustrating how they didn’t include any gods/goddesses, mythological characters in the movie. However, it helps us kind of visually see if the gods were actually there, or if it’s really the mortals fighting with themselves.

That was fascinating ! Thank you for offering us such high-quality content, Erica!

That was a great interview! Interesting topic and both people just so genuinely good people.

i think the plural of pegasus is pegasi?

This book is next on my TBR, I’m FINALLY going to be able to read it! So I haven’t watched the spoiler section but I was very excited to see this vid pop up🫶🏻

I know you told me you were gonna use my question, but still it made me grin to see you actually use it haha. the book club was a lot of fun and it was great talking to Rosie, and fascinating to hear her talk again here

I was looking forward this book ever since I heard about it was coming out and pre-ordered it as soon as possible. A big mistake on part no doubt for setting my hopes too high and I'm by no means blaming the author who seems very lovely. Personally, I was quite put off by the immediate attraction to Jason to the point when she thinks about how badly she wants him to touch her, even if it comes in the form of a strike. The whole initial attraction thing felt very chic lit to me (it's a legitimate genre that has it's place of course, I just didn't expect a mythology fiction to read like one lol) in the way it was described. The use of "OK" in a story like this one also took me out, and all in all, I decided to put the book away before finishing it. Really hope it's going to find a reader who's going to enjoy it more. This one just simply wasn't my cup of tea. Still, very cool interview!

Fantastic as ever, just bought the book.