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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 season for us. We were stepping ou

Oct 29
28 min

RE-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 of an ancient volcanic erupt

Oct 27
1 h 04 min

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 life and writing of Ovid: picku

Oct 22
1 h 39 min

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 Japanese as the Sea of Trees—and to

Oct 20
52 min

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 this brilliant crossover episod

Oct 15
30 min

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

Oct 13
1 h 25 min

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 bestselling author Liv Albert, ho

Oct 8
1 h 03 min

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 perfectly adapted to the ice a

Oct 6
47 min

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 wrote poems about the Roman co

Oct 1
1 h 25 min

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, and they didn't function

Sep 17
1 h 07 min

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 Today bestselling author Eva

Sep 10
56 min

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 bricks and left it a city o

Sep 3
1 h 30 min

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 Empire? Elon Musk has approxim

Aug 20
1 h 04 min

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 period and location, as many as o

Aug 6
1 h 18 min

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 which one of their sons would be

Jul 23
1 h 11 min

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. His sister Octavia had refused

Jul 9
1 h 25 min

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. What most people don’t reali

Jul 2
1 h 38 min

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 building his empire. Octavia, Livi

Jun 25
1 h 16 min

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. But perhaps the most important

Jun 11
1 h 09 min

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 saw a rise in a certain kind

Jun 4
51 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I have listened to dozens of these episodes and love the show. I’m going to buy the audio book next. I especially loved the Dionysus arc where it goes from the brilliantly entertaining mythology while slowly almost deceptively devolving into the real history and the slave revolt. Great stuff!

Bryonius Maximus · Jun 2026

I’m throughly enjoying this podcast. I’m still working through from the beginning but its easily one of the main shows I listen to. I swoon over the hosts. They’re funny, interesting and the shows are well researched.

Possum4488 · Mar 2026

Jenny and Genn take us through different parts of history with depth information presented with humor and side topics and passion. I love learning from them each podcast!

L1081 · Feb 2026

They are able to do what so many other history podcasts fail at: make history into a work of art, a story to be enjoyed, and a tale of humanity past and present. Their English degrees and writing abilities perfectly mix with their interest in history to make a podcast that is so fun, funny, and deeply interesting. Keep it up!

Jessi Ruckert · Jan 2026

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