Ancient Empires

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  • Regular price: $39.95

    • The Rise and Fall of An Empire
    • By: Simon Baker
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points....

    Regular price: $19.77

    • The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
    • By: Duane W. Roller
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 506 ratings
    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

    Regular price: $19.34

    • From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume 1
    • By: John Matthews
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire - from its establishment to decline and beyond. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Death of a Superpower
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 803 ratings
    • This is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the greater good of the state....

    Regular price: $21.06

    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,464 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • A History of Palmyra
    • By: Rubina Raja
    • Narrated by: Christopher Hallett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the 17th century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome....

    Regular price: $13.75

    • From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
    • By: Michael Kulikowski
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A New History of the World: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Civilizations
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Charting five thousand years of global history in 10 lucid chapters, Empire is a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the history of the world....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
    • By: Peter Heather
    • Narrated by: Sean Schemmel
    • Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD....

    Regular price: $39.95

    • And the End of Civilization
    • By: Bryan Ward-Perkins
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering in-depth insight into his leadership skills and victories as well as each one's pioneering strategies....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • A Book about the Mysteries of History; Empires, the Dawn of Civilization, Epic Conflict and Tragic Collapses of Societies, Cultures, and Kingdoms. (Epic History)
    • By: Bo Carson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Echo of Ancient Civilizations, a Book by Bo Carson, is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to walk in the path of the ancient world. With...

    Regular price: $7.99

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Lionel Casson
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome during the empire's greatest period, the first and second centuries AD....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

    Regular price: $21.49

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