Roman Biography

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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A dramatic account of some of the most notorious figures of medieval and Renaissance history who ruled from the Eternal City. It is sure to grip fans of John Julius Norwich, Tom Holland, and Peter Ackroyd....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Julia Annas
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems....

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    • Seneca at the Court of Nero
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman....

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    • Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen
    • By: Jane Draycott
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The first biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen–and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII....

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    • The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
    • By: Guy de la Bédoyère
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire....

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    • By: André Aciman
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.

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    • Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
    • By: John F. White
    • Narrated by: Keval Shah
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party, and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon....

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    • Letters from a Stoic (All 124 Letters), Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Enchiridion, Of Peace of Mind, Of Anger, Of Providence, The Discourses of Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to Epictetus, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: The Stoics, & Marcus Aurelius Biography
    • By: Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, John Lord
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
    • Length: 51 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime philosophies in the history of Western civilization. It is a way of living that focuses on reality instead of fantasy or idealism....

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    • Emperor, Soldier, Saint
    • By: Professor Peter Sarris
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking new biography of Justinian, Peter Sarris gives us an intimate insight into both the Emperor and the man....

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    • Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine....

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    • From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Timothy Egan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs....

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    • Penguin Monarchs, Book 3
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Series: Penguin Monarchs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Roman Dial
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, 27-year-old Cody Roman Dial, the son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast....

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    • What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well
    • By: Massimo Pigliucci
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How to Be Good uses the story of Socrates and Alcibiades and examples from Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Machiavelli, alongside modern interpretations to explore what philosophy can teach us about the quest for virtue today....

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