How an Empire Ends: Goths vs Goths vs Goths (Part 2)

Ancient History Fangirl

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ In our last episode we talked about the opulence of Goth–Gothic architecture, fashion, and art of all kinds–and the connection between this and the opulence of the Visigoths and their vast state treasure plundered from Roman cities and towns. But there’s more to Goth than plunder. There’s a romance to Goth. A dark romance steeped in obsession. Many of the original Gothic romances involve tragic deaths. And what else do we know of that combines sex and death? That’s right: vampires. And it’s in ancient vampire mythology where we’ll attempt to uncover a nefarious connection to the Ostrogoths. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2	Vampires are sexy plague beasts. Always have been, always will be.
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1:22.3	And I'm Jen McMenemy.
1:25.1	And this is Ancient History Fan Girl.
1:26.4	We got there, y'all.
1:27.2	We got there.
1:29.8	It's the final episode in our Gothic season.
1:36.4	I've loved every minute of it, but also I am so ready to move on to the next thing, which is probably how democracy dies.
1:37.6	So, you know, fun times.
1:39.7	It's a light season, a happy season.
1:43.3	It's a season with absolutely no correlation to modern times.
1:44.3	None. None at all. As this one has with absolutely no correlation to modern times. None.
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