End of Season 15 Announcement
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! It is the End of Season 15--and we have to say, this was a challenging seaso...
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Ancient History Fangirl
An ancient history podcast run by two Millennial women. Misbehaving emperors, poison assassins, mythological mayhem; it’s like if Hardcore History met up with My Favorite Murder in the ancie...
Episodes
20 of 370 episodesRE-RELEASE: The Haunting of Crater Lake
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon—the remnants...
Quiet Piggy: How Augustus Silenced his Critics
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In the last episode of our season, we’re taking an in-depth look at the li...
RE-RELEASE: Sea of Trees: The Japanese Suicide Forest
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In this episode, we’ll delve into the mystery of Aokigahara, known in Japanes...
Liv and Genn Visit Camp Half Blood (with Rick Riordan and Annabelle Oh)
Sign up to our Patreon to get the exclusive video version of this episode! We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you th...
RE-RELEASE: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by th...
AHFG Book Club: An Odyssey for Everyone (with Liv Albert)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! What can we believe about the Odyssey? This is the question posed by bestsel...
RE-RELEASE: Ghosts of Wrangel Island
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Mammoths existed on our planet for roughly five million years, and they were p...
Virgil the Virgin and the Creation of the Authoritarian State
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Among the poets of early Augustan Rome, Virgil had a niche: nostalgia. He w...
Can Christian Nationalists Be Normal in a Democracy? (With Brad Onishi)
Enemy of My Dreams is just $2.99 on Kindle! Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Short answer: no. Long answer: no...
AHFG Book Club: Lady Pirates and Why-Choose Werewolves (with Eva Leigh)
Enemy of My Dreams is just $2.99 on Kindle! Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We are thrilled to welcome USA T...
The Builder Emperor: How Augustus Made a City of Marble
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! One of the most famous quotes from Augustus’ reign was “I found Rome a city of...
Why are Techbro Oligarchs so Obsessed with Augustus?
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Have you noticed that our tech overlords cannot be normal about the Roman Emp...
A Democracy Built on Slavery (With Emma Southon)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Slavery touched every part of life in ancient Rome. Depending on the time perio...
The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 3)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, Livia and Octavia were at each other’s throats over whic...
The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 2)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, Octavian had just defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony. H...
RE-RELEASE: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra has beguiled us for centuries....
The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 1)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The First Ladies of Rome—the women of Augustus’ family—played a role in buildi...
AHFG Book Club: Aphrodite & Ares: An Immortal Affair (With Jennifer Saint)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Aphrodite, goddess of love and sex, took many lovers in the mythology. Bu...
Clodia: Champion of Democracy (With Douglas Boin)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Due to changing marital laws (among other things), the late Roman Republic...