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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled.
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More fairy tale than history...
- By Clementi on 26-12-15
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Story of the World
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-08-13
- Language: English
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The Parthian
- Parthian Chronicles series, Book 1
- By: Peter Darman
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories, Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains, and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus agrees to help Spartacus build his army as Rome musters its legions to crush the slave uprising.
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Not really on the mark
- By frances augustine on 02-01-24
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The Parthian
- Parthian Chronicles series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Series: Parthian Chronicles Series, Book 1
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-04-18
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Italy
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Discover the prodigious global influence of il bel paese in this star-studded retelling of Italy's past-from a foremost author of historic Italy. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced book.
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The Shortest History of Italy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-04-24
- Language: English
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists.
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Boring
- By Louise on 01-01-22
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000-Year History
- By: Josephine Quinn
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost, drowned out by the concept – developed in the Victorian era – of separate ‘civilisations’. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart.
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A superb challenge to civilisational assumptions
- By JCM on 01-04-24
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000-Year History
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- By: Emma Southon
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome’s darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life and death and what it means to be human.
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A really engaging premise undone by poor execution and sketchy delivery
- By Eamon Honan on 28-01-23
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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Egypt, Greece and Rome
- Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
- By: Charles Freeman
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 32 hrs and 2 mins
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Long sources of mystery, imagination, and inspiration, the myths and history of the ancient Mediterranean have given rise to artistic, religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions that span the centuries. In this unique and comprehensive introduction to the region's three major civilizations, Egypt, Greece, and Rome draws a fascinating picture of the deep links between the cultures across the Mediterranean and explores the ways in which these civilizations continue to be influential to this day.
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Great content poor choice of narrator
- By M N R on 03-01-19
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Egypt, Greece and Rome
- Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 32 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-12-13
- Language: English
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Moneta
- A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
- By: Gareth Harney
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced: by its beauty, its hardiness and its power to tell stories and connect us with the ancient past. He realised that coins, more than being simply markers of exchange, are metal canvases upon which societies could immortalise their ideas, cultures, personalities, tragedies and triumphs. His small tarnished coin, then, actually told the epic story of Rome.
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Moneta
- A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- By: Anthony Everitt
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.
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An excellent history
- By StevenCF on 05-03-17
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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Caesar's Legion
- The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- By: Stephen Dando-Collins
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Stephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimental history reveals countless previously unknown details about Roman military practices, Caesar's conduct as a commander and his relationships with officers and legionnaires, and the daily routine and discipline of the Legion.
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Good read, but a few errors.
- By Elspeth on 25-03-12
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Caesar's Legion
- The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-12-05
- Language: English
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24 Hours in Ancient Rome
- By: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern-day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day, we meet a new character - from emperor to slave girl, gladiator to astrologer, medicine woman to water-clock maker - and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.
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Fantastic insight into Roman life
- By harrietp on 16-11-17
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24 Hours in Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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How to Think About God
- An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
- By: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How did the Stoics think about religion? In How to Think About God, Philip Freeman presents vivid new translations of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero offers a Stoic view of belief, divinity, and human immortality, giving eloquent expression to the religious ideas of one of the most popular schools of Roman and Greek philosophy.
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How to Think About God
- An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Rome
- An Empire's Story
- By: Greg Woolf
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome, and even today, traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa - and sometimes even further afield. Historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects - a story spanning a millennium and a half of history.
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Robotic and relentless
- By "drdavy" on 06-08-23
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Rome
- An Empire's Story
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of the pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from the gilded capital to the barbarous realms beyond the frontier; from emperors to slaves.
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The 35 minute preface alone is reason to buy this book.
- By stormymonday on 06-09-23
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
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Totally spoiled by the hammy narration
- By PAW on 12-11-23
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
- Man, Soldier, and Tyrant
- By: J. F. C. Fuller
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. There is no doubt that Caesar was an extraordinary man. But as General Fuller points out, Caesar was more extraordinary for his reckless ambition, matchless daring, and ruthless tyranny than for his skills as a military commander. Caesar continually had to extricate himself from the results of mistaken judgments. His unpremeditated Gallic conquest was just one of Fuller's many examples.
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Awful to listen to
- By Joanne Reilly on 12-11-21
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Julius Caesar
- Man, Soldier, and Tyrant
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-05-06
- Language: English
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Soldier of Rome: Crisis on the Danube
- The Artorian Dynasty, Book 2
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Since the reign of Emperor Tiberius, an uneasy peace has existed along the Danube frontier between the various Sarmatian tribal kingdoms to the north and the Roman Empire to the south. Now, a new threat has emerged in Dacia, as the aged King Duras seeks to unite his people; a feat not witnessed since the legendary King Burebista more than a century before.
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Soldier of Rome: Crisis on the Danube
- The Artorian Dynasty, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Series: The Artorian Dynasty, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-03-24
- Language: English
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Killing for the Republic
- Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
- By: Steele Brand
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city. That same year in the east, Rome destroyed Corinth and subdued Greece. Over little more than a century, Rome's triumphant armies of citizen-soldiers had shocked the world by conquering all of its neighbors.
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Nope
- By Adrian berry on 30-03-23
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Killing for the Republic
- Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-12-19
- Language: English
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- By: Plutarch, James Romm - preface and notes, Pamela Mensch - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-01-17
- Language: English
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