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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 191 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 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 506 ratings
    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

    Regular price: $19.34

    • Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Alexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives—the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)—is little known. In The Last Dynasty, Toby Wilkinson unravels the incredible story of this turbulent era.

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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 2,374 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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    • The Hunt for a New Past
    • By: Paul Cartledge
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 458 ratings
    • Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire....

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    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....

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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 132 ratings
    • Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • To the Death of Alexander the Great
    • By: John Bagnell Bury
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 40 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • At the time of his death in 1927, John Bagnell Bury was easily the most honored English historian of his era. Bury, an esteemed Cambridge scholar, wrote what is considered the finest one-volume history of ancient Greece in the English language....

    Regular price: $39.20

    • A Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • An immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 4 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

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    • By: Darius Arya, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Darius Arya
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Mediterranean is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization. Central to the region’s history are the splendorous cities that flowered around the region—bases of power that saw innovation, commerce, expansion, and the building of great empires.

    Regular price: $33.90

    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,042 ratings
    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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    • A New History
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 454 ratings
    • Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings....

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    • The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago....

    Regular price: $21.49

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