Ancient History Fangirl

Ancient History Fangirl

Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy

Episodes 352
Avg. Duration 1h 5m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (450)
Since Feb 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
82%
Hosting
rss.pdrl.fm

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

AHFG Book Club: Aphrodite & Ares: An Immortal Affair (With Jennifer Saint)

Jun 11, 2026 1h 9m

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ Aphrodite, goddess of love and sex, took many lovers in the mythology. But perhaps the most important was Ares. They adored each…

Clodia: Champion of Democracy (With Douglas Boin)

Jun 04, 2026 51m

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Due to changing marital laws (among other things), the late Roman Republic saw a rise in a certain kind of wealthy elite woman with…

The Lex Juliae: How Augustus Brought Women to Heel

May 21, 2026 1h 39m

⁠⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! You may have noticed that MAGA (Republicans in general, really) are weird about women. That weirdness is ancient. It goes all the way…

AHFG Book Club: If Villain Bad, Why Villain Hot? (With Elizabeth May)

May 14, 2026 1h 10m

⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We are thrilled to welcome #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth May to the podcast. Elizabeth May is the author of The Wolf and…

How to Destroy a Democracy (Welcome to the Augustan Age)

May 07, 2026 1h 16m

⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When Augustus rolled into town after defeating Marc Antony and Cleopatra, he was greeted as a hero—because the Senate ordered its…

Was Rome Always Like This? (With Mike Duncan)

Apr 23, 2026 1h 26m

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When we look at the demise of Roman democracy, we think of the time of Augustus—and maybe Caesar before him. But in reality, the…

AHFG Book Club: Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh (With Saara El-Arifi)

Apr 16, 2026 46m

⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Join us as we return to Cleopatra’s Alexandria—the glamor, the political intrigue, the history—and take a second in-depth look at…

Rome Has No Kings

Apr 09, 2026 21m

⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When Octavian (Augustus) returned home victorious from his final battle against Marc Antony and Cleopatra, he was met by an ecstatic…

RE-RELEASE: Actium, Baby! (With Barry Strauss)

Apr 02, 2026 1h 5m

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ In this episode, we return to the beach at Actium with author, historian, and academic Barry Strauss as our tour guide. His new book, The…

ALL IN ONE PLACE: Marc Antony x Cleopatra: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Parts 4 & 5)

Mar 26, 2026 2h 12m

⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This file contains the last two episodes in our series on Marc Antony and Cleopatra: Lovers in a Dangerous Time, all in one place. This…

RE-RELEASE: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome

Mar 19, 2026 1h 38m

⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra has beguiled us for centuries. What most people don’t realize is that when Mark Antony met…

ALL IN ONE PLACE: Julius Caesar Parts 1 & 2

Mar 12, 2026 2h 8m

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ We're on hiatus until April 9. Until then, enjoy this long, binge-able episode on Julius Caesar's early life. Most accounts of Caesar's…

RE-RELEASE: Spartacus vs. Toussaint L'Ouverture (With Mike Duncan)

Mar 05, 2026 1h 13m

⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! More than 1,800 years after Spartacus fought for his freedom, another rebel leader spearheaded the most successful slave revolt in…

ALL IN ONE PLACE: Spartacus Parts 1, 2 & 3

Feb 26, 2026 2h 38m

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ This file contains the first three episodes of our Spartacus series. You'll learn about the conditions in Italy that gave rise to the…

RE-RELEASE: Dionysus: Religion of Revolution

Feb 19, 2026 1h 44m

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠⁠ Dionysus was a god of revolutions. He featured prominently in two out of three major Roman slave rebellions. Why is that? And why was…

RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich

Feb 12, 2026 1h 35m

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠⁠ Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded two thousand years ago. It’s the home of some of the most…

ALL IN ONE PLACE: The First and Second Servile Wars

Feb 05, 2026 2h 13m

⁠⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When we think of large Roman slave rebellions, we usually think of Spartacus. But what if we told you that Spartacus was only the…

RE-RELEASE: The Mound Builders of Cahokia

Jan 29, 2026 1h 39m

⁠⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North America was located along the Mississippi River. At its peak,…

ALL IN ONE PLACE: Boudicca Parts 1, 2 & 3

Jan 22, 2026 3h 48m

⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We're on hiatus until April 9. Until then, please enjoy our entire Boudicca series, all in one place.  The story of Boudicca’s revolt is…

End of Season 14 Announcement

Jan 15, 2026 22m

⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ It is the End of Season 14--a brief but intense season! Big changes have come in our lives over the past year, and in this episode we…

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