Ancient Italy

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2024
    • Language: English
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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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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easily defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna....

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    • King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
    • By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
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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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    • The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
    • By: Catherine Nixey
    • Narrated by: Lalla Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'....

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    • By: Marcus Aurelius
    • Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2015
    • Language: English
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    • This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor AD 161-180, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....

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    • Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army
    • By: Guy de la Bédoyère
    • Narrated by: Piers Hampton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state....

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    • The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
    • By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....

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    • By: Matthew Kneale
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero and walk around temples visited by Roman emperors....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the City in Ancient Rome That Was Buried Because of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius During the Rule of the Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Series: The Ancient Romans
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pompeii was destroyed by the horrific eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, which buried at least 2,000 unlucky people. Pompeii became a mysterious tomb, hiding secrets of Rome and other civilizations that influenced the life and culture of the city and its people....

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    • From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
    • By: Theodor Mommsen
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Series: The History of Rome, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Book two of Theodore Mommsen's history begins in 509 BC, when the last Roman king was expelled and a republican form of government was formed....

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    • Facts, Culture, Wars, Emperors, Prostitutes, and Slaves
    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Miriam Webster
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2019
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • The Definitive History
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline....

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    • From Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568
    • By: Michael Kulikowski
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy that Preceded the Roman Republic
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The importance of the Etruscans can be traced back to Rome. The Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, was an unusual conqueror because it would absorb and assimilate elements of the cultures it dominated....

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