Penelope Waited 20 Years While He Slept With Goddesses. We Need To Talk.

The Original Situationship: Homer, Sappho, Plato & Rumi on Why Love Wrecks UsHave you ever loved someone so completely it felt dangerous? Turns out you're not alone, and you never were. In this episode Bel takes you through the ancient texts that somehow, impossibly, know exactly how modern heartbreak feels. From Homer's Odyssey, the original story of a woman waiting twenty years while her husband island-hops with goddesses — to the heartbreaking fragments of Sappho, the woman who invented the language of longing, to Plato's Symposium and its theory of why we spend our whole lives searching for our other half. And finally Rumi, the thirteenth century Sufi mystic whose love poems read like they were written last night. This episode is for the lovers, the brokenhearted, and everyone who has ever wondered why loving someone can feel like handing your soul over with no guarantee of getting it back. Spoiler: the ancient Greeks wondered the same thing. And they wrote it down.#sappho #theodyssey #rumi #plato #symposium #philosophy #love #lust #desire #soulmate #grief #heartbreak #breakup #lostlove #fallinginlove #midlifelove #divorce #marriage I'm Bel. Artist, designer, scholar, and chronic overthinker. Join me in bed for art history, esoteric rabbit holes, midlife reinvention, and whatever my mind is chewing on this week.🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss whatever happens next.Listen to my other little podcast Sacred Mechanics#midlife #artistlife #genx #arthistory #phdlife #startingover