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57- Choosing Miss Olympus

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Aphrodite, Hera and Athena. These are the three goddesses now fighting over an apple. And, strange as it sounds, it's this dispute that will lead to three naked goddesses standing in front of an unsuspecting mortal called Paris...


Sources for this episode:

  • Brooks, F. (1896), Greek Lyric Poets. London: David Nutt.
  • Euripides (1967), The Bacchae and Other Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume II). London: William Heinemann.
  • Hyginus (1872), Fabulae. Edited by M. Schmidt. Jenae: Hermann Dufft.
  • Koniaris, G. L. (1967), On Sappho, Fr. 16 (L. P.) Hermes 95(3): 257-268.
  • Raynor, D. J. and Lardinois, A. (2014), Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Smith; W. (ed.) (1867), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. In Three Volumes (Vol. 1-3.). Boston: Little, Brown, And Company.

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