Our only explanation for this episode is that it was Jenny's birthday and she wanted to have some friends over.

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. The reckoning was coming.

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 against Cleopatra.

Kate from the Exploress Podcast joins us in a freewheeling conversation that finds those women throughout the ages--from Civil War battlefields to ancient Egyptian bathrooms.

When we scratched the surface of Yule, we found that its origins were older and darker and weirder than we ever imagined.

Soon Marc Antony would be called to war—and face the biggest battlefield test of his career.

When Cleopatra and Marc Antony met by the River Tarsus, Antony was smitten. And when Cleopatra went back to Alexandria, he forgot about invading Parthia and followed her home.

This Halloween, Ancient History Fangirl teams up with Raven Forrest Fruscalzo from the Tiny Vampires podcast to explore the intriguing connection between vampires and disease

Shakespeare wrote about them. Hollywood glamorized them. For thousands of years, they've come down to us as the ultimate star-crossed lovers: the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra, and the Roman commander Marc Antony.

Fulvia was a populist firebrand, ancient Roman gang leader, and general. This is her story.

Season III is over, and we're gearing up for Season IV!

When Julius Caesar returned to Rome after his last military campaign, he had big plans. But a secret movement to assassinate him was building steam.

All Caesar's barriers to power had been removed. Now there was no one to stop him from doing exactly what he wanted with the Roman Empire.

Outnumbered five to one in a city full of ancient wonders, Cleopatra and Caesar spent the next ten months barricaded in a luxurious palace, fighting a deadly urban war for Cleopatra's throne and both of their survival.

In this episode, we take you from the cutthroat intrigue of the Ptolemaic court to the volatile streets of Alexandria—and from Cleopatra’s early life to the events that led her to take an extreme gamble and team up with the man who’d just conquered Rome.

The odds were not in Caesar's favor. But that's just how he liked it.

Caesar was backed into a corner. His only chance to survive involved taking an extreme action that would catapult him to the pinnacle of Roman power—even as it put a price on his head.

Now Vercingetorix will face his greatest challenge yet--at a town called Alesia.

Vercingetorix steps onto the stage, and all of Gaul unites behind him against the armies of Caesar.

This episode is a whole divided into three parts. In Part 1, we send Julius Caesar and his army on a collision course toward the people of Gaul.

We’re going to go out on a limb and operate under the assumption that a tall tale from Celtic Ireland can help us make the Gauls live and breathe again.

Before we tell you about the Gallic Wars, we want to let the Gauls speak for themselves.

As Caesar tested the rules of Roman democracy, he started to resemble the thing every Roman feared most: a dictator.

Most stories about Julius Caesar's life don't start at the beginning. But this one does.

Listen in as we tell you what we've got coming up in Season 3.