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 118 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....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • Rome's Last Conqueror
    • By: Nicholas Jackson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $7.73

    • 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 430 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....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • 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 23 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...

    Regular price: $12.59

    • 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 2,379 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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 3,987 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

    Regular price: $21.92

    • 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...

    Regular price: $10.47

    • 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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    • 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 458 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....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • 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 198 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....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 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 300 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....

    Regular price: $19.77

    • 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 138 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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 276 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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    • The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
    • By: Guy de la Bédoyère
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 661 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 288 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....

    Regular price: $17.19