
The Persian Wars
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Charlton Griffin
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Herodotus
Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the world's greatest works of literature. The Persian Wars is part history, part geography, part anthropology...and completely entertaining. It possesses a charm that is legendary. But, over and above this, Herodotus has succeeded for all time in brilliantly expressing the conflict between the ideal of the free man defending his liberty within a state based on the rule of law, and that of the despot who bases his rule on brute force and whose subjects are considered slaves. In his writing we experience the impact of that great intellectual, moral, and ethical force that set the Greeks apart from the rest of the Ancient World. The Persian Wars is a magnificent epic of human triumph over the forces of tyranny, of the struggle over two diametrically opposed concepts of government...between which man must still choose today.
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very good if you skip through the geneologies
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You, sir, should be knighted by the Queen.
All of these audiobooks by him are hits.
Wonderful performance
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Great story
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Truly outstanding
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Chapter 1 - Essay by Edward M. Walker and George Rawlinson (I think this reading is from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Herodotus in the public domain)
Chapter 2 - Book 1 (Clio)
Chapter 3 - Line 72
Chapter 4 - Line 131
Chapter 5 - Book 2 (Euterpe)
Chapter 6 - Line 86
Chapter 7 - Line 135
Chapter 8 - Book 3 (Thalia)
Chapter 9 - Line 50
Chapter 10 - Line 97
Chapter 11 - Book 4 (Melpomene)
Chapter 12 - Line 69
Chapter 13 - Line 135
Chapter 14 - Book 5 (Terpsichore)
Chapter 15 - Line 75
Chapter 16 - Book 6 (Erato)
Chapter 17 - Line 61
Chapter 18 - Book 7 (Polymnia)
Chapter 19 - Line 47
Chapter 20 - Line 120
Chapter 21 - Line 170
Chapter 22 - Book 8 (Urania)
Chapter 23 - Line 93
Chapter 24 - Book 9 (Calliope)
Chapter 25 - Line 48
Excellent Audiobook Companion
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So cool
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Informative
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Cinematic
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Narrator annoying
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