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

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Philip Freeman
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    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
    • By: Donald J. Robertson
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    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
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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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    • The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up
    • By: Richard J. Dewhurst
    • Narrated by: Nick McDougal
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • A study of the substantial evidence for a former race of giants in North America and its 150-year suppression by the Smithsonian Institution....

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    • Greater Than Napoleon
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
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    • From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal....

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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
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    • 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....

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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
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    • This collection contains more than 140 of Ryokan's poems, with selections of his art, and of the very funny anecdotes about him....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian Human History, Starting from the Polynesian Arrival Through the Growth of a Civilization to Kamehameha the Great
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Saffir
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-03-22
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    • Are you interested in the history of one of the most isolated kingdoms on Earth? Then this audiobook is for you! When most people hear the phrase “ancient Hawaii”, it brings up a certain air of mystery and intrigue....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the First Ancient Empire of Mesopotamia and How Sargon the Great of Akkad Conquered the Sumerian City-States (Exploring Mesopotamia)
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    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-22
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    • Was there an empire older and more important than mighty Egypt? There were a few, but the Akkadian Empire, born out of the cradle of civilization, is thought to be the first. And it was a game-changer....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
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    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
    • By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526)....

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