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Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy

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

6/11/2026 • 69 min

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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 other; they had many children together; they could not keep apart . Their relationship was (for the ancient Greeks) surprisingly…healthy? Today we talk all things Ap… Play episode

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
RE-RELEASE: 536 AD: A Volcanic Murder Mystery
How an Empire Ends: 75 Years Under Hunnic Dominion
How an Empire Ends: the Starving Camps
How an Empire Ends: Rome's Gothic Immigrants

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