Ancient Biography

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    • The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
    • By: Lynne Olson
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam....

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    • The Mystery of the Boy King
    • By: Zahi Hawass
    • Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This book surveys 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history by focusing on the lives and lifestyles of great pharaohs....

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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: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 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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    • Egypt's King of Kings
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson presents the life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present...

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    • By: Josephus
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The ancient historian Josephus is key to a proper understanding of the time of Christ and the early church era. This recording, an abridged paraphrase...

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,997 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,387 ratings
    • Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind....

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    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal....

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    • An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
    • By: Douglas Boin
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire....

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    • Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome
    • By: Christopher Kelly
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • We see Attila as both a master warrior and an astute strategist whose rule was threatening but whose sudden loss of power was even more so. The End of Empire is an original exploration of the clash between empire and barbarity in the ancient world, full of contemporary resonance....

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    • By: Saint Augustine
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace....

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    • By: Patrick N. Hunt
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees. Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world....

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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: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 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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    • The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • Rome's Last Citizen is a timeless story of an uncompromising man in a time of crisis and his lifelong battle to save the Republic....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • Greater Than Napoleon
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 665 ratings
    • From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal....

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    • The Hunt for a New Past
    • By: Paul Cartledge
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" - not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia....

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