The 3 Best Ancient History Fangirl Podcast Episodes
1) Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 4)
As Marc Antony and Cleopatra lived and loved in Alexandria, Octavian whipped up a toxic garbage fire of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in Rome--and then declared war. Not against Marc Antony, but ag...Show More
Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 4)
1:00:04 | Dec 26th, 2019
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2) Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 5)
After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony's entire army--100,000 strong--surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate the terms of their defeat. Those were dark, ...Show More
3) You Don't Know Yule
What do you know about Yule? Maybe a lot. The holiday is widely celebrated in Scandinavian countries, and it's an important part of Wiccan and Pagan tradition. But for many of us, the version that's c...Show More
4) How an Empire Ends: Goths vs .Goths vs. Goths (Part 1)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We have come to the end (or almost the end) of our long, sweeping epic history of the Goths. But we have one corner of Gothic history...Show More
5) How an Empire Ends: Germanic Heroic Legend
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Long after the smoke from the battlefields died down, long after the ravens had eaten their fill, the Migration Era lived on in German...Show More
6) How an Empire Ends: Rise and Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We've told you the story of the Ostrogoths, the Amal ruling family, who built an imperial dynasty only to see that rulership dissolve w...Show More
7) The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! For a while now, Genn has been hinting at a "Secret Project" in the works--and now it's out in the wild: the Official Lore Olympus Co...Show More
8) How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When Alaric of the Visigoths sacked Rome, it shocked the world—not least because Rome hadn’t been sacked in a thousand years. But also...Show More
9) How an Empire Ends: Gothic Paganism
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode about Amalasuintha and the end of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, we said we were next going to turn to the Visigothic King...Show More
10) 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 the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the fi...Show More