Ancient Politics

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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 3,942 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: 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 1,176 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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    • How One Ancient Language Went Global
    • By: Laura Spinney
    • Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys.

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    • A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers
    • By: Gregory Lopez, Massimo Pigliucci, Meredith Alexander Kunz
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • What is a good life? And how can we create that life in a world filled with uncertainty? Beyond Stoicism invites you to find your own answers to these big questions with help from thirteen of the most prominent Greco-Roman philosophers―many of whom inspired, or were inspired by, the Stoics.

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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
    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
    • By: Barbara Mertz
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968.

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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 380 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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    • 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 2,388 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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    • Empress of Rome, Book 2
    • By: Kate Quinn
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Series: Empress of Rome, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything - especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome....

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    • Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king's mummy, they found more than 5,000 unique objects, from the mundane to the extravagant, from the precious to the everyday....

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    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal....

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    • The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Robert Bauval, Thomas Brophy PhD
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy present the anthropological, climatological, archaeological, geological, and genetic research supporting a hugely debated theory of the Black African origin of Egyptian civilization....

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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 665 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: 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 218 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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    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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    • By: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Mythos, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16,310 ratings
    • Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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