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    • Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
    • By: Genevieve von Petzinger
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language....

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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 4 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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    • Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
    • By: Bruce Chilton
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Although he ruled over a rich, strategically crucial land, his royal title did not derive from heredity....

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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 1,098 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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    • 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 336 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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    • 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 3,921 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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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 3,797 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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    • 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 654 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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    • 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 495 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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    • A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From acclaimed writer and scholar Philip Freeman, a contemporary retelling of classic Greek and Roman mythology....

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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 23 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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    • From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Helena Rosenblatt
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • The Dialogues of Plato (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought...

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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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    • 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 1,400 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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    • Pompeii Lost and Found
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history....

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    • An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Seneca, James S. Romm - editor
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our time....

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