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    • 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 261 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....

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    • Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....

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    • 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 593 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....

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • This riveting audiobook narrated by Phyllida Nash traces the history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Italy and Rome, then this audiobook is for you. It includes two books: History of Italy and History of Rome. It covers topics ranging from the founding and early settlements to the modern history....

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    • Wonders of the World, Book 19
    • By: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Series: Wonders of the World
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation....

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    • 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 768 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....

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    • Ancient Civilizations, Book 1
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
    • Series: Ancient Civilizations
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 11-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Rome is a city of myth and legend. The Eternal City, the city of the seven hills, the sacred city, the caput mundi, the center of the world, Roma, Rome, by any of her many names is a city built of history and blood, marble and water, war and conquest....

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    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....

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    • King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
    • By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526)....

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    • 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 20 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....

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    • 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.

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    • A Nicholas Foxe Adventure
    • By: Jackson Coppley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Get Ready for Action and Adventure With Nicholas Foxe and His Team of Code Hunters An Army Ranger makes a snap decision in the heat of battle. Cave...

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    • An Archaeological Thriller
    • By: Dave Bartell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A mysterious forger. A plot to empty the world’s museums. Can this champion of culture stop it before all our history is fake? A forensic audit ...

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    • By: Edith Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • The Roman Way makes vividly interesting the contrast between Roman and Greek culture....

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    • A History of Rome
    • By: Ferdinand Addis
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholicism, city of the artistic imagination - Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the 27 centuries of its existence....

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    • The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
    • By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy that Preceded the Roman Republic
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The importance of the Etruscans can be traced back to Rome. The Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, was an unusual conqueror because it would absorb and assimilate elements of the cultures it dominated....

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