Bestsellers
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- De: John F. White
- Narrado por: Keval Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world....
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Coins- Early and Often
- De Colin MacKenzie en 12-16-23
De: John F. White
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Too good to only listen to
- De Betsy Aldrich en 05-10-24
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Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- De: Edward J. Watts
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. Listen to learn more....
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A Well Written Timely Work
- De David I. Williams en 09-10-20
De: Edward J. Watts
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Pax
- War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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A stunning portrait of Rome’s glory days, this is the definitive history of the Pax Romana—an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness....
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Great book!
- De Mic en 09-27-23
De: Tom Holland
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Histories
- De: Herodotus
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....
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Best of Audible's "The Histories" by Herodotus
- De Emily en 07-19-16
De: Herodotus
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Emperor of the Seas
- Kublai Khan and the Making of China
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- De: John F. White
- Narrado por: Keval Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world....
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Coins- Early and Often
- De Colin MacKenzie en 12-16-23
De: John F. White
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Too good to only listen to
- De Betsy Aldrich en 05-10-24
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Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- De: Edward J. Watts
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. Listen to learn more....
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A Well Written Timely Work
- De David I. Williams en 09-10-20
De: Edward J. Watts
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Pax
- War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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A stunning portrait of Rome’s glory days, this is the definitive history of the Pax Romana—an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness....
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Great book!
- De Mic en 09-27-23
De: Tom Holland
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Histories
- De: Herodotus
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....
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Best of Audible's "The Histories" by Herodotus
- De Emily en 07-19-16
De: Herodotus
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Emperor of the Seas
- Kublai Khan and the Making of China
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.
De: Jack Weatherford
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Alexander at the End of the World
- The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
- De: Rachel Kousser
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the capital city of Persepolis. His exhausted and traumatized soldiers were ready to return home to Macedonia.
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Lots of detailed information
- De Amazon Customer en 10-29-24
De: Rachel Kousser
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- De: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrado por: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....
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Good History and Historiography
- De David A en 04-19-22
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Roman Warfare
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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Award-winning historian of ancient Rome Adrian Goldsworthy presents a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire....
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Not much here.
- De Placeholder en 12-06-23
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Rome and Persia
- The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 20 h y 25 m
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Epic in scope, tracing seven centuries of conflict between two great powers, historian Adrian Goldsworthy completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history....
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MAPS NEEDED
- De David en 12-29-23
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Hannibal
- Rome’s Greatest Enemy
- De: Philip Freeman
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....
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very excellent book on Hannibal; highly recommend
- De Michael E. B. en 10-04-22
De: Philip Freeman
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Theoderic the Great
- King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
- De: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
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In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526)....
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More for historians than general readers
- De Bill Staley en 10-29-23
De: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, y otros
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A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Traveling the Hellenistic World
- An Odyssey Through Political Dynasties and Cultural Mosaics
- De: Dominic Haynes
- Narrado por: Jeff Bower
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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The social and cultural legacy of the Greeks was so significant that even Rome, who conquered Greece, assimilated much of its culture....
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SO FUN
- De Melanie en 03-07-24
De: Dominic Haynes
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The Gallic War
- De: Julius Caesar
- Narrado por: Laura Orlando
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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The Gallic War is Julius Caesar's autobiographical diary of the wars in what is now France, Belgium, and parts of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland, in which he describes the battles that took place from 58 to 51 BCE when he fought the Germanic and Celtic peoples....
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Where did you find this narrator?
- De John M. en 01-23-21
De: Julius Caesar
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The Art of War: Three Complete Audiobook Set
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot, Marlon Braccia, Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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The wisdom of Sun Tzu, narrated by Peter Berkrot, Marlon Braccia, and Mike Vendetti....
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Victory Mapping
- De Jmleem en 02-08-18
De: Sun Tzu
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By the Spear
- Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
- De: Ian Worthington
- Narrado por: Phil Holland
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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By the Spear offers an exhilarating military narrative of the reigns of these two larger-than-life figures in one volume....
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Bueller..... Bueller...... Bueller...... Monotone
- De Jonathan Allen Beard en 02-15-15
De: Ian Worthington
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Trajan
- Rome's Last Conqueror
- De: Nicholas Jackson
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history....
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Distracting performance
- De Generic Reviewer en 06-22-24
De: Nicholas Jackson
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The Sacred Band
- Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
- De: James Romm
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes - and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers....
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Stop now and don’t buy this book.
- De Robert Pitman en 06-08-21
De: James Romm
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Sparta
- Fall of a Warrior Nation
- De: Philip Matyszak
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths....
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Learn the rest of the story B4 idolizing Sparta
- De tetrahymena en 04-03-24
De: Philip Matyszak
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The Book of Five Rings
- De: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield....
De: Miyamoto Musashi
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Praetorian
- The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
- De: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served....
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- De Charles en 08-07-17
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The Wall
- Rome's Greatest Frontier
- De: Alistair Moffat
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Hadrian's Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running seventy-three miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twenty-six miles down the Cumbrian coast....
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Narrator
- De S. R. en 05-02-24
De: Alistair Moffat
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Rome
- Strategy of Empire
- De: James Lacey
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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James Lacey provides a comprehensive, persuasive, and engaging account of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire....
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Antony NOT Anthony
- De Cody Rankin en 12-14-23
De: James Lacey
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The Spartans
- De: Paul Cartledge
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since....
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Not a place to go to learn about the Spartans
- De James en 10-22-07
De: Paul Cartledge
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The Greek Histories
- The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
- De: Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
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The leading scholars behind The Greek Plays present a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers....
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Great material....
- De Nom de Guerre en 01-30-22
De: Mary Lefkowitz, y otros
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Agricola and Germania
- De: Tacitus
- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
- Duración: 2 h y 17 m
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Two works by the Roman historian, Tacitus. Agricola is a portrait of Julius Agricola, a governor of Roman Britain, and the German tribes of Northern Europe are discussed in Germania....
De: Tacitus
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The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower
- Fall of the Roman Empire, Book 2
- De: Nick Holmes
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster.
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Great story telling of history
- De BlueGhost en 09-04-24
De: Nick Holmes
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The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260
- When the Gods Abandoned Rome
- De: Paul N. Pearson
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome's millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260....
De: Paul N. Pearson
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 1: The Annals, Part 1
- De: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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In the pantheon of ancient men of letters, none hold a more venerated position than the Roman historian, Tacitus....
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Tacitus
- De cbrann en 03-25-08
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The Gallic War
- De: Julius Caesar
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skillful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power....
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Great Reading Flawed By Editing
- De Fred Kiesche en 12-04-23
De: Julius Caesar