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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- Written by: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility - the one percent of the population who controlled 99 percent of the empire's wealth. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti recounts this period, spanning the years 100 to 33 BC, from the perspective of the Roman people. In doing so, he presents a provocative, trenchantly researched narrative of popular resistance against a powerful elite.
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A must read for any scholar of Ancient Rome
- By Angela Kaiser Hansen on 2023-02-20
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-15
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- Written by: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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Fabrics are everywhere!
- By Roberta W on 2023-10-01
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
- 24 Hours in Ancient History Series, Book 1
- Written by: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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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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24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
- 24 Hours in Ancient History Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-01
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- Written 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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Roman history refreshed
- By Grantie on 2022-02-27
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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: 2021-03-09
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
- Written by: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" - not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome's territories. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more.
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Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-21
- Language: English
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). 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.
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome
- Written by: Eve MacDonald, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Eve MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Hannibal Barca is famous for marching an eclectic mix of troops across the Alps and into the Roman heartland during the Second Punic War. But how much do we know about the world Hannibal was born into and came of age in? In Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome, get to know one of history’s most impressive generals from the political and military conflicts that defined his adolescence to the battles that made him famous. These 15 lectures will paint a portrait of not only Hannibal, but also his enemies and allies.
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Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome
- Narrated by: Eve MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-24
- Language: English
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How to Be a Leader
- An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
- Written by: Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker - translator
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous - and massive - Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise leadership in a handful of essays, which are filled with essential lessons for experienced and aspiring leaders in any field today.
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Incredible advice!
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-10-28
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How to Be a Leader
- An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-05
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
- A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
- Written by: Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
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The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
- A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-04
- Language: English
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Dialogues of Plato
- Written by: Plato
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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The Dialogues of Plato rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought. In them Plato cast his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues.
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Dry, inconsistent reading, poorly organized.
- By Anonymous User on 2020-09-15
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Dialogues of Plato
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 1999-12-29
- Language: English
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- Written by: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-16
- Language: English
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The Peloponnesian War
- Written by: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Kenneth W. Harl
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and its allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides captured this drama with matchless insight in his classic eyewitness account of what was arguably the greatest war in the history of the world up to that time. These 36 half-hour lectures draw on Thucydides' classic account as well as other ancient sources to give you a full picture of the Greek world in uneasy peace and then all-out war in the late 5th century B.C.
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A well structured and insightful course.
- By Chris Driscoll on 2018-09-14
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The Peloponnesian War
- Narrated by: Kenneth W. Harl
- Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-08
- Language: English
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- Written by: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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An excellent book and admirable attempt
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-27
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-30
- Language: English
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The Antiquities of the Jews
- Written by: Flavius Josephus
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 51 hrs and 46 mins
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Among the many important historical documents from the Classical world of Greece and Rome The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus is one of the most distinctive and characterful. Josephus (37-c100 CE) set out with the clear purpose of telling the history of the Jews from the creation in Genesis to the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66 CE. Born in Jerusalem as Yosef ben Matityahu, he rose to become a leading participant in the First Jewish Revolt (66-73 CE).
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The Antiquities of the Jews
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Series: The Antiquities of the Jews Series, Book 1
- Length: 51 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-20
- Language: English
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The Persian Expedition
- Written by: Xenophon
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Xenophon, after being exiled from Athens, spent the last years of his life hunting, writing, and recalling in his books the great days of the Persian expedition. This record of one of the most famous marches in history contains an account of the day-to-day life of ordinary men and soldiers. Translated by Rex Warner.
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The Persian Expedition
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2008-04-07
- Language: English
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The Good Kings
- Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
- Written by: Kara Cooney
- Narrated by: Kara Cooney
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today.
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THANK GOODNESS IT WAS FREE!
- By Sarah Jane Engineer on 2021-12-22
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The Good Kings
- Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
- Narrated by: Kara Cooney
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-02
- Language: English
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The Vikings and Their Enemies
- Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
- Written by: Philip Line
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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A fresh account of some of history's greatest warriors. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the 11th centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, and colonizing - and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps their talent for warfare is too little understood.
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A lot of history packed in.
- By Ross & Kathy on 2023-02-02
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The Vikings and Their Enemies
- Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-15
- Language: English
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-07
- Language: English
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
- Written by: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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This thorough guide explores those civilizations that have faded from the pages of our textbooks but played a significant role in the development of modern society. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World covers the Hyksos to the Hephthalites and everyone in between, providing a unique overview of humanity's history from approximately 3000 BCE-550 CE. Each entry exposes a diverse culture, highlighting their important contributions.
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A brilliant audiobook that is a MUST-OWN!
- By Ryan Menchion on 2022-09-14
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-13
- Language: English
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Before War
- On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins
- Written by: Elisha Daeva
- Narrated by: Elisha Daeva
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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The book Before War will change how its listeners look at the world by exposing the female roots of Western civilization. It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primatology, and the shocking new genetics data, to tell the story of Western civilization. For listeners of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, this is about another way that our European ancestors lived, without violence, sexual shame, or social inequality. Its the story of a story that was buried and re-discovered again and again, and is once again being told, thanks to the new science of genetics.
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Before War
- On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins
- Narrated by: Elisha Daeva
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-17
- Language: English
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