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    • A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Geraldine Pinch
    • Narrated by: TJ Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination....

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    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090 ratings
    • In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

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    • Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
    • By: Donald J. Robertson
    • Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • How to Think Like Socrates is an accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives.

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    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • This fully updated edition of Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world presents new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, and new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds....

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    • Six Months That Changed the World
    • By: Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397 ratings
    • Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....

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    • 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 491 ratings
    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,778 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • By: Coulter H. George
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts....

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    • One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems
    • By: Jessica Carew Kraft
    • Narrated by: Jessica Carew Kraft
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Urban wife and mom of two Jessica Carew Kraft tells the remarkable story of the potential benefits rewilding has for us and our planet, and questions what it truly means to be a human in today's world....

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    • An Ancient Guide to Living Well (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Aristotle, Susan Sauve Meyer - translator introduction
    • Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • How to Flourish is a colloquial new translation by Susan Sauve Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before....

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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 3,908 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: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...

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    • An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Diogenes, M. D. Usher - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters—from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity....

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    • The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

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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 2,258 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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    • 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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    • Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi
    • By: Timothy Pauketat
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil....

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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 243 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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