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Sparta
- Rise of a Warrior Nation
- By: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts.
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informational and interesting
- By jonjon on 06-09-23
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Sparta
- Rise of a Warrior Nation
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-21-21
- Language: English
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Sparta
- Fall of a Warrior Nation
- By: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts. We might admire their physical toughness, but Spartans also systematically abused their children. They gave rights to female citizens that were unmatched in Europe until the modern era, meanwhile subjecting their conquered subject peoples to a murderous reign of terror.
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Learn the rest of the story B4 idolizing Sparta
- By tetrahymena on 04-03-24
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Sparta
- Fall of a Warrior Nation
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-18-22
- Language: English
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The Road to Sparta
- Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace
- By: Dean Karnazes
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon. In doing so he saved the development of Western civilization and inspired the birth of the marathon as we know it. Even now, some 2,500 years later, that run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in the history of mankind.
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Repetitive, no depth
- By Miles on 06-12-17
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The Road to Sparta
- Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-25-16
- Language: English
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Daughters of Sparta
- A Novel
- By: Claire Heywood
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships - but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister, Klytemnestra.
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At LAST!!!
- By DAVID and FAITH on 07-15-21
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Daughters of Sparta
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-22-21
- Language: English
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The Spartans
- By: Andrew J. Bayliss
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today. But the truth behind these stories of the exotic other can be hard to discover, lost amongst the legend of Sparta which was even perpetuated by later Spartans, who ran a thriving tourist industry that exaggerated the famed brutality of their ancestors. As Andrew Bayliss explores in this book, there was also much to admire in ancient Sparta.
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Reflective nuances with a variety of references
- By Sebastian on 11-26-20
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The Spartans
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-31-20
- Language: English
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A War Like No Other
- How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and non-conventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
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"A War Like No Other" is a Book Like No Other
- By MajorChris on 02-06-20
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A War Like No Other
- How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-22-19
- Language: English
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Persian Fire
- The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history.
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Engaging
- By Jean on 02-16-17
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Persian Fire
- The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-27-15
- Language: English
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Falcon of Sparta
- By: Conn Iggulden
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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The Persian King Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to Northern India. As many as 50 million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food, and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors.
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Great retelling of a little known part of history.
- By Joanne M. on 10-10-19
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Falcon of Sparta
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Sparta
- Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age
- By: Prof. Timothy B. Shutt
- Narrated by: Prof. Timothy B. Shutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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A born teacher and lecturer, Professor Timothy B. Shutt examines the history and culture of ancient Sparta, a society renowned for military excellence and adherence to the values of courage, discipline, duty, and the overcoming of fear. Vastly outnumbered at the Battle of Thermopylae, the Spartan "300" held off an overwhelming Persian force before finally succumbing - but not without inflicting massive casualties and inspiring the rest of the Greeks with the notion that they could persevere.
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OK for a beginner
- By Dale on 11-11-10
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A History of Ancient Sparta
- Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age
- Narrated by: Prof. Timothy B. Shutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
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Gates of Fire
- An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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Gates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta’s finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The time they bought enabled the Greeks to rally - saving, according to ancient historian Herodotus, “Western democracy and freedom from perishing in the cradle.” How did the Spartans accomplish this superhuman feat? This is what the King of Persia hopes to learn from the sole Spartan survivor.
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Hard to read
- By Mike From Mesa on 01-28-13
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Gates of Fire
- An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-14-12
- Language: English
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Sparta
- By: Roxana Robinson
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
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Conrad Farrell’s family has no military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams, he saw the sturdy appeal of the Marine ethic: Semper fidelis came straight from the ancient world, from Sparta, where every citizen doubled as a full-time soldier. When Conrad joined the Marines after college, he expected to further along tradition of honor, courage, and commitment.
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Many interesting and revealing insights on PTSD
- By MAUREEN on 08-07-13
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Sparta
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-04-13
- Language: English
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- By: Thucydides
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
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The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C. and continued intermittently for 27 years. It pitted the all-powerful land force of Sparta and its allies against the supremely powerful naval force of Athens. Thucydides actually participated in this conflict, a war that he realized would have a greater influence on the history of Greece than any other. He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactical aspects of the war, and also provides illuminating character profiles.
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Amazing, Beautiful and Important Piece of History
- By Darwin8u on 06-30-12
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-29-06
- Language: English
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Spartans: A Captivating Guide to the Fierce Warriors of Ancient Greece, Including Spartan Military Tactics, the Battle of Thermopylae, How Sparta Was Ruled, and More
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard L Walton
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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If you want to discover the captivating history of Sparta, then pay attention...Sparta is one of the first names that comes to mind when we think about the ancient world. And this is for good reason. After its founding sometime in the 10th century BCE, Sparta soon rose to be one of the most powerful city-states in not only the Greek but the entire ancient world.
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This is Sparta!!!!!!!! and everything else too.
- By Brian VonFeldt on 05-28-21
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Spartans: A Captivating Guide to the Fierce Warriors of Ancient Greece, Including Spartan Military Tactics, the Battle of Thermopylae, How Sparta Was Ruled, and More
- Narrated by: Richard L Walton
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-05-19
- Language: English
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Gates of Fire
- An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
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Excellent, but very sad it's abridged
- By Quotes&More on 04-07-07
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Gates of Fire
- An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-22-07
- Language: English
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
- Ancient Warfare and Civilization Series
- By: Jennifer T. Roberts
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved.
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Gripping Historical Narrative
- By Ben on 06-21-21
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
- Ancient Warfare and Civilization Series
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-12-19
- Language: English
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H Is for Hawk
- By: Helen Macdonald
- Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.
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Mabel The Hawk--The Fire That Burned The Hurts Away
- By Sara on 04-09-15
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H Is for Hawk
- Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
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The Overstory
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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Sparta Market Outlook
- By: Sparta
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In-depth analysis of current trends and future expectations for different segments of the oil market, with a focus on understanding both the supply and demand dynamics at play.
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Daughter of Sparta
- By: Claire Andrews
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis - who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands - upends the life she's worked so hard to build. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus, and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit.
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A book full of love, loss, betrayal & redemption
- By Jessica Elopre on 09-14-21
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Daughter of Sparta
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Series: Daughter of Sparta, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 06-21-21
- Language: English
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- By susan on 06-11-14
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-06-12
- Language: English
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