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- The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world.
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Engaging, entertaining and exhaustive
- By William G. on 10-10-2024
By: Tom Holland
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- By: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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The storyline was relatively and connecting emotionally.
- By Ilana on 06-09-2024
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Clashes of Kings and Emperors Claiming the Crown
- By: Michael Klein
- Narrated by: Kenneth Maxon
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer....
By: Michael Klein
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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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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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Absorbing, never-dull narration of our history
- By PAS on 18-03-2019
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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The Storm Before the Storm
- The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
- By: Mike Duncan
- Narrated by: Mike Duncan
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....
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History for everyone
- By Julien on 28-10-2017
By: Mike Duncan
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Changed the way I thought!
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 28-10-2023
By: Alice Roberts
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Rubicon
- The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world.
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Engaging, entertaining and exhaustive
- By William G. on 10-10-2024
By: Tom Holland
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- By: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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The storyline was relatively and connecting emotionally.
- By Ilana on 06-09-2024
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Clashes of Kings and Emperors Claiming the Crown
- By: Michael Klein
- Narrated by: Kenneth Maxon
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer....
By: Michael Klein
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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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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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Absorbing, never-dull narration of our history
- By PAS on 18-03-2019
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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The Storm Before the Storm
- The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
- By: Mike Duncan
- Narrated by: Mike Duncan
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....
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History for everyone
- By Julien on 28-10-2017
By: Mike Duncan
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Changed the way I thought!
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 28-10-2023
By: Alice Roberts
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 126 hrs and 31 mins
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Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....
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epic
- By Luke on 17-08-2017
By: Edward Gibbon
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The Roman Empire
- A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Including Stories of Roman Emperors Such as Augustus Octavian, Trajan, and Claudius
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Explore the captivating history of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces the world has ever seen. But this isn’t just the story of conquest or the incredible system of institutions that made it possible....
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Theoderic the Great
- King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
- By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
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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)....
By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, and others
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Those About to Die
- By: Daniel P. Mannix
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.
By: Daniel P. Mannix
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Roman History: 3 in 1
- Facts, Culture, Wars, Emperors, Prostitutes, and Slaves
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Miriam Webster
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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In this audiobook bundle, you get the best historical facts and knowledge you deserve. All in all, you get over plenty of explanations and clarifications of what the Romans and their empire looked about 2,000 years ago....
By: Kelly Mass
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Pyrrhus of Epirus
- The Life and Legacy of One of the Ancient World's Most Famous Generals
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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phrase a "Pyrrhic victory" is often used to denote a win that costs the victor more than the loser, but few have any notion of how the term came into use....
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The War That Made the Roman Empire
- Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
- By: Barry Strauss
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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The War That Made the Roman Empire is the gripping story of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire....
By: Barry Strauss
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Spanien
- Das Römische Imperium der Caesaren 2
- By: Theodor Mommsen
- Narrated by: Karlheinz Gabor
- Length: 28 mins
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Die Zufälligkeiten der äußeren Politik bewirkten es, dass die Römer früher als in irgendeinem anderen Teil des überseeischen Kontinents sich auf der...
By: Theodor Mommsen
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Giulio Cesare: L'uomo che cambiò il destino di Roma
- By: Francesco De Vito
- Narrated by: Fabio Farnè
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Gaio Giulio Cesare è il personaggio più famoso della storia di Roma antica, nonché uno dei più noti condottieri di tutti i tempi...
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The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 - 5
- By: Titus Livy, William Masfen Roberts - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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Hardly anyone who was educated was unaware of at least some of the more famous stories of Roman myth and history as told by Titus Livius....
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- By Joshua McDermott on 16-05-2021
By: Titus Livy, and others
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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....
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A Must Listen
- By Jeremy on 12-09-2019
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Greco-Roman Warfare
- The History and Legacy of the Phalanx and Legion Formations That Revolutionized the Ancient World
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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Although the armies of the ancient Greek, or "Hellenic", city-states included both cavalry and light infantry, their mainstay was undoubtedly the heavy infantry known today as hoplites....
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The Byzantine Empire
- By: Charles Oman
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution....
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Great but narrators delivery is hard to understand
- By Cameron Jensen on 25-10-2020
By: Charles Oman
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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Julius Caesar
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....
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Too dry & dusty, even for a Roman history tragic
- By Gastronomix on 13-11-2023
By: Mary Beard
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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
- From the First Century CE to the Third, Revised and Updated Edition
- By: Edward N. Luttwak
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move.
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Hannibal
- A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 BC, with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War
- By: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known....
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Covers the Punic war in great detail.
- By Michael on 18-10-2017
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Praetorian
- The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
- By: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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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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Soldier of Rome: March to Oblivion
- The Artorian Dynasty, Book 3
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio XXI Rapax is dispatched to Pannonia, on the River Danube.
By: James Mace
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Escape from Rome
- The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins
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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world....
By: Walter Scheidel
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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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Author 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....
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Amateurish
- By karl on 26-09-2021
By: Emma Southon
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Soldier of Rome: The Last Flavian
- The Artorian Dynasty, Book 4
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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As the two former soldiers embark on a life far removed from the Danube frontier, they remain ever mindful of Trajan’s cautionary advice; that Roman politics are deadlier than the most fearsome enemy warrior.
By: James Mace
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- 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....
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very enjoyable listen
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-2024
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Legion versus Phalanx
- The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy....
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good but not great
- By Michael on 26-11-2020
By: Myke Cole
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- A Modern Abridgment by Moses Hadas
- By: Edward Gibbon, Moses Hadas, Mitch Horowitz
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.
By: Edward Gibbon, and others
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Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen
- By: Emma Southon, Rita Gravert - Übersetzer, Caroline Weißbach - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Christiane Nothofer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Historia antigua Vol. 1 [Ancient History Vol. 1]
- Una guía apasionante de Mesopotamia, Egipto y Roma [An Exciting Guide to Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome]
- By: Billy Wellman
- Narrated by: Carlos Verne
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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3 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la antigua Mesopotamia y Egipto y Roma!
By: Billy Wellman
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Julio Cesar [Julius Caesar]
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La vida de Julio César, uno de los más grandes líderes de la historia, está repleta de conquistas, intrigas y poder. César no solo fue un orador carismático, un general formidable y un dictador poderoso, sino también un sumo sacerdote de un culto exótico, prisionero de piratas, seductor de Cleopatra y de las esposas de sus rivales políticos, y, en un momento, un rebelde condenado por su propio país. En este libro, se exploran todas las facetas de César: desde su juventud como fugitivo y prisionero, pasando por su ascenso como político y líder militar, hasta su asesinato.
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Rome - Antiquity’s superpower
- The Turning Points of History
- By: World History
- Narrated by: Paul Bown
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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In 52 BC, after six years of war against the Gallic tribes, Julius Caesar had tamed another enemy of the Roman Republic. Almost one million Gauls were taken as slaves, while their land became just another Roman province. Soon tonnes of grain along with lucrative taxes were flowing towards the imperial capital, whose inhabitants enjoyed all the luxuries of the provinces. Everything had changed since outlaws had founded Rome almost 500 years earlier.
By: World History
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Roman Mythology
- A Timeless Collection of Roman Myths and Legends
- By: Adrian Danvers
- Narrated by: Benjamin Press
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Unveil the mysteries of ancient Rome with "Roman Mythology: A Timeless Collection of Roman Myths and Legends." This engaging guide is perfect for both newcomers and seasoned enthusiasts eager to explore the powerful tales that have shaped one of history’s greatest civilizations. Journey into the world of the Dii Consentes, the twelve majestic gods and goddesses who ruled over the Roman pantheon. Discover the intriguing stories of the Titans, those primordial beings whose struggles set the stage for the rise of the Olympian gods.
By: Adrian Danvers
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- A Modern Abridgment by Moses Hadas
- By: Edward Gibbon, Moses Hadas, Mitch Horowitz
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.
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- By: Billy Wellman
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3 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la antigua Mesopotamia y Egipto y Roma!
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Julio Cesar [Julius Caesar]
- By: Joaquín de la Sierra
- Narrated by: Rafael Silva-Calderon
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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La vida de Julio César, uno de los más grandes líderes de la historia, está repleta de conquistas, intrigas y poder. César no solo fue un orador carismático, un general formidable y un dictador poderoso, sino también un sumo sacerdote de un culto exótico, prisionero de piratas, seductor de Cleopatra y de las esposas de sus rivales políticos, y, en un momento, un rebelde condenado por su propio país. En este libro, se exploran todas las facetas de César: desde su juventud como fugitivo y prisionero, pasando por su ascenso como político y líder militar, hasta su asesinato.
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Rome - Antiquity’s superpower
- The Turning Points of History
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In 52 BC, after six years of war against the Gallic tribes, Julius Caesar had tamed another enemy of the Roman Republic. Almost one million Gauls were taken as slaves, while their land became just another Roman province. Soon tonnes of grain along with lucrative taxes were flowing towards the imperial capital, whose inhabitants enjoyed all the luxuries of the provinces. Everything had changed since outlaws had founded Rome almost 500 years earlier.
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Roman Mythology
- A Timeless Collection of Roman Myths and Legends
- By: Adrian Danvers
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