Greece Biography

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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 2,252 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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    • 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 279 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 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 454 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • 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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    • Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Peter Crawford
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century....

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    • A Life of Alexander the Great
    • By: F. S. Naiden
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
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    • Whatever we may think of Alexander - whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath - most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career....

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    • The Story of Civilization, Volume 2
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-13
    • Language: English
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    • Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the heel of forward-marching Rome....

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • Kings and Conquerors
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Neil Dickson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power....

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    • 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
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    • 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....

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    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Helen of Troy is one of the most evocative names in ancient history. For nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that it can wield....

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    • His Life and His Mysterious Death
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait....

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    • How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
    • By: Christopher McDougall
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,628 ratings
    • The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere....

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    • Minor Characters from Major Moments
    • By: Adrian Bliss
    • Narrated by: Adrian Bliss
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • History may be written by the victors, but to get the real story sometimes you have to ask the nobodies.

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    • Euclid and His Elements
    • By: David Berlinski
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion....

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    • A Biography of Desire
    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times best-selling and award-winning historian....

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    • By: Plutarch, John Dryden - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 42 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world....

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    • By: Plutarch
    • Narrated by: Ray Atherton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • A brilliant Greek writer and philosopher, Plutarch wrote detailed biographies of 46 legendary Greek and Roman figures, four of whom are included in this important collection....

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