Ancient History Fangirl
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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 ancient world, with a heavy helping of booze and laughter.
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Was Rome Always Like This? (With Mike Duncan)
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When we look at the demise of Roman democracy, we think of the time of...
AHFG Book Club: Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh (With Saara El-Arifi)
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Join us as we return to Cleopatra’s Alexandria—the glamor,
the polit...
Rome Has No Kings
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When Octavian (Augustus) returned home victorious from his final battle aga...
RE-RELEASE: Actium, Baby! (With Barry Strauss)
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In this episode, we return to the beach at Actium with author, historian, a...
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Marc Antony x Cleopatra: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Parts 4 & 5)
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This file contains the last two episodes in our series on Marc Antony and...
RE-RELEASE: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome
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The romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra has beguiled us for centurie...
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Julius Caesar Parts 1 & 2
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We're on hiatus until April 9. Until then, enjoy this long, binge-able epis...
RE-RELEASE: Spartacus vs. Toussaint L'Ouverture (With Mike Duncan)
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More than 1,800 years after Spartacus fought for his freedom, another rebel...
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Spartacus Parts 1, 2 & 3
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This file contains the first three episodes of our Spartacus series. You'll...
RE-RELEASE: Dionysus: Religion of Revolution
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Dionysus was a god of revolutions. He featured prominently in two out of t...
RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
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Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded t...
ALL IN ONE PLACE: The First and Second Servile Wars
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When we think of large Roman slave rebellions, we usually
think of...
RE-RELEASE: The Mound Builders of Cahokia
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Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North Amer...
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Boudicca Parts 1, 2 & 3
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We're on hiatus until April 9. Until then, please enjoy our entire Boudicc...
End of Season 14 Announcement
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It is the End of Season 14--a brief but intense season! Big changes have c...
RE-RELEASE: Janus: God of the New Year
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Janus is the two-faced god of the Roman pantheon. He was the god of beginni...
RE-RELEASE: Saturnalia: So Much More than Roman Christmas
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Wish you had a holiday all about feasting, drinking, the upending of the s...
RE-RELEASE: Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
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This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without...
RE-RELEASE: You Don't Know Yule
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What do you know about Yule? Maybe a lot. The holiday is widely celebrated...
RE-RELEASE: St. Nicholas and the Christmas Cannibals
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Ah, Christmas—it's a time of cheer, of gift-giving and generosity; and a ti...
The Ancient History of the Horse (with David Chaffetz)
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For thousands of years, horses have been essential to human
civiliz...
Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 2)
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In our last episode, we detailed the rise of the Beast of the Gevaudan, so...
Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 1)
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From 1764 to 1767, an area of southeastern France called the Gevaudan was s...
RE-RELEASE: Catholic Werewolves
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We’ve covered werewolves in the ancient world before—and their connection t...
RE-RELEASE: Werewolves of Wolf Mountain: Terrors of Ancient Greece
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The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by...
Maiden, Monster, Medusa with Ayana Gray
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Today on the podcast, we’re thrilled to welcome bestselling
author Ay...
RE-RELEASE: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive)
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This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by...
RE-RELEASE: The Haunting of Crater Lake
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Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon—the remnan...
RE-RELEASE: Sea of Trees: The Japanese Suicide Forest
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In this episode, we’ll delve into the mystery of Aokigahara, known in Japan...
RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
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Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded tw...
RE-RELEASE: This Episode is Full of Lies: Lucian's A True History (With Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!)
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Lucian’s A True History has been called the world’s first work of science f...
Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine)
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AD Rhine is the pen name of the authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinsen...
End of Season 13 Announcement
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It is the End of Season 13--and what a wild ride it's been. We've had so mu...
How an Empire Ends: Goths vs Goths vs Goths (Part 2)
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In our last episode we talked about the opulence of Goth–Gothic architectur...
How an Empire Ends: Goths vs .Goths vs. Goths (Part 1)
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We have come to the end (or almost the end) of our long, sweeping epic...
How an Empire Ends: Germanic Heroic Legend
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Long after the smoke from the battlefields died down, long after the rav...
How an Empire Ends: Rise and Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
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We've told you the story of the Ostrogoths, the Amal ruling family, who b...
The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy)
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For a while now, Genn has been hinting at a "Secret Project" in the wor...
How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity
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When Alaric of the Visigoths sacked Rome, it shocked the world—not least...
How an Empire Ends: Gothic Paganism
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In our last episode about Amalasuintha and the end of the Ostrogothic King...