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The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 3)

7/23/2026 • 71 min

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 chosen as Augustus’ heir. The unfortunate thing is that the heirs kept dying. Meanwhile, the daughter and granddaughter of Augustus—Julia the Elder and Agrippina the Elder—were the first gener… Play episode

The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 2)
RE-RELEASE: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome
The Secret Lives of Julio-Claudian Wives (Part 1)
AHFG Book Club: Aphrodite & Ares: An Immortal Affair (With Jennifer Saint)
Clodia: Champion of Democracy (With Douglas Boin)
The Lex Juliae: How Augustus Brought Women to Heel
AHFG Book Club: If Villain Bad, Why Villain Hot? (With Elizabeth May)
How to Destroy a Democracy (Welcome to the Augustan Age)
Was Rome Always Like This? (With Mike Duncan)
Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh (With Saara El-Arifi)
Rome Has No Kings
RE-RELEASE: Actium, Baby! (With Barry Strauss)
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Marc Antony x Cleopatra: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Par…
RE-RELEASE: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Julius Caesar Parts 1 & 2
RE-RELEASE: Spartacus vs. Toussaint L'Ouverture (With Mike Duncan)
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Spartacus Parts 1, 2 & 3
RE-RELEASE: Dionysus: Religion of Revolution
RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
ALL IN ONE PLACE: The First and Second Servile Wars
RE-RELEASE: The Mound Builders of Cahokia
ALL IN ONE PLACE: Boudicca: Parts 1, 2 and 3
End of Season 14 Announcement
RE-RELEASE: Janus: God of the New Year
RE-RELEASE: Saturnalia: So Much More than Roman Christmas
RE-RELEASE: Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
RE-RELEASE: You Don't Know Yule
RE-RELEASE: St. Nicholas and the Christmas Cannibals
The Ancient History of the Horse (with David Chaffetz)
Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 2)
Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 1)
RE-RELEASE: Catholic Werewolves
RE-RELEASE: Werewolves of Wolf Mountain: Terrors of Ancient Greece
Maiden, Monster, Medusa with Ayana Gray
RE-RELEASE: The Haunting of Crater Lake
Sea of Trees: The Japanese Suicide Forest
RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
This Episode is Full of Lies: Lucian's A True History (With Liv Albert fro…
Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine)
End of Season 13 Announcement
How an Empire Ends: Goths vs Goths vs Goths (Part 2)
How an Empire Ends: Goths vs .Goths vs. Goths (Part 1)
How an Empire Ends: Germanic Heroic Legend
How an Empire Ends: Rise and Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy)
How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity
How an Empire Ends: Gothic Paganism
RE-RELEASE: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Di…
How an Empire Ends: Life of Amalasuintha

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