Ancient Persian

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

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    • 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 1,390 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....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • An Enthralling Overview of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
    • By: Enthralling History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • With unimaginable wealth, palace intrigues, birthday parties featuring fine wine and endless desserts, lavish architecture and gardens, an underground water system, and a 1,500-mile Royal Road, the ancient Persian Empire captures the imagination....

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    • 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: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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...

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    • By: Tessa Afshar
    • Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than escaping them....

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    • The First World Empire, Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For 70 years, victory had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire....

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    • By: Herodotus
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Peter Crawford
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century....

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    • A Novel of Alexander the Great
    • By: Mary Renault
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king....

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    • By: Jon D. Mikalson
    • Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece on a large scale....

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    • By: Aeschylus, Mark Will
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Aeschylus’ historical tragedy Persians, with its dire warnings against the hubris of imperialist overreach, is as relevant today as it was when first presented to an Athenian audience in 472 BC....

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    • A Novel of Alexander the Great
    • By: Mary Renault
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 364 ratings
    • The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas....

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    • Historical Fiction: Ancient Iran’s Struggles and Triumphs Under Cyrus the Great and Darius Amid 6th Century BCE Warfare, Politics, and Royal Drama
    • By: Brooks Miller
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • A historical fiction novel set in ancient Iran during the reign of Cyrus the Great and his successor Darius. The Persian Throne unfolds against a ...

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek City-States, Including the Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and More
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The Greco-Persian Wars are often portrayed as a battle between good and evil. This is simultaneously an exaggeration and an oversimplification....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, Including the Hittite Empire, Arameans, Luwians, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Cimmerians, Scythians, Persians, Romans, and More
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Anatolia, then pay attention.... What sparks curiosity about ancient Anatolia, which makes up most of modern-day Turkey, in the minds of history lovers is the diversity of its peoples throughout its territories and time....

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    • Resistance to Alexander the Great
    • By: Waldemar Heckel
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated....

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    • The Persian Wars
    • By: Herodotus, A. D. Godley Translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Herodotus was a Greek historian born in Halicarnassus, subject at the time of the great Persian Empire....

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