Ancient History Fangirl: How an Empire Ends, Rome's Gothic Immigrants

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

An episode of Ancient History Fangirl. One that I, Liv, really want you all to hear. This story isn’t just about Goths that lived outside Rome. It’s also about the Goths that lived inside the Empire—as everything from slaves to soldiers to free citizens. How they were treated within that empire fueled and fed the wheel of the Migration era. Hatred of immigrants played a major role in Migration-Era conflicts–in ways scarily similar to events today. Get the show notes here. Listen to all the episode on How An Empire Ends via this Spotify playlist. Find more from Ancient History Fangirl here. Find more information on Jenny's novel which is featured at the end (and is an amazing romance novel featuring the dying Roman Empire as the Big Bad).

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby. Except actually, it's not.
0:38.2	Hi, I'm Liv.
0:40.0	I'm here with something special today.
0:42.9	I am here with another episode of Ancient History Fan Girl.
0:47.1	This is, I've played a, I guess at least one.
0:49.4	I'm trying, time is a flat circle.
0:52.4	I'm here with another episode of Ancient History Fan Girl.
0:55.0	This time, it's honestly just something I really wanted to put into my feed and to present to you all.
1:03.6	Right now, Jen and Jenny, who as you probably know are two very good friends of mine, so I won't
1:09.9	pretend this isn't also that.
1:12.0	But Jen and Jenny with Ancient History Fangirl right now are doing this kind of simultaneous
1:17.9	series on the sort of the end of the Roman Empire, as well as some other, you know, alternate side quests that I won't pretend I fully understand
1:29.6	because they're just, they're doing so much and I love them for it.
1:32.6	But this episode specifically, I listened to and I just thought immediately I would love to put
1:39.1	this in my feed. I would love to share it with all of you and have you be aware of this series that they're
1:45.3	working on because it is about how Rome fell as an empire, the long and slow decline of it.
1:52.7	But in that story is an absolutely unimaginable amount of parallels.
2:03.7	And so without saying much more, I will just say that you can find the rest of this incredible
2:09.6	series on the ancient history fan girl feed.
2:12.3	Wherever you get your podcasts, I've linked to their website in the episode's description.
2:17.1	Make sure you're subscribed to these guys.
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