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[French] - Jules César by Plutarque
Apr 1, 202202:20:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/253029to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Jules César Author: Plutarque Narrator: Patrick Martinez-Bournat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Général et homme politique romain (100-44 av. J.-C.), Jules César créa les bases du système impérial romain. Son destin exceptionnel marqua le monde romain et l'histoire universelle : ambitieux et brillant, il s'appuya sur le courant réformateur et démagogue pour son ascension politique ; stratège et tacticien habile, il repoussa les frontières romaines jusqu'au Rhin et à l'océan Atlantique en conquérant la Gaule, puis utilisa ses légions pour s'emparer du pouvoir. Il se fit nommer dictateur à vie, et fut assassiné peu après par une conspiration de sénateurs. - -
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Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel
Apr 27, 202110:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447328to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry Author: Robert Kanigel Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: April 27, 2021 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the 'Darwin of Homeric studies.' So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a 'before' Parry and an 'after.' Kanigel describes the 'before,' when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were 'written' texts, the way we think of most literature; and the 'after' that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of 'oral theory,' which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.
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Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
Mar 23, 202114:32:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440193to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity Author: Alberto Angela Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: One of Italy’s most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in history, the legendary Egyptian queen remains, in many ways, an enigma. In this mesmerizing history, Alberto Angela offers a fresh and dynamic portrait of this extraordinary ruler, revealing a strikingly modern woman born in an ancient era and skilled in the art of diplomacy and war, who would conquer the heart of a general—Marc Antony—and Rome itself. Cleopatra focuses on a twenty-year period that marked a sweeping change in Roman history, beginning with the assassination of Julius Caesar that led to the end of the Republic, and ending with the suicides of Antony and Cleopatra and the birth of the Augustan Empire. Angela brings the people, stories, customs, and traditions of this fascinating period alive as he transports us to the chaotic streets of the capital of the ancient world, the exotic port of Alexandria in Egypt, and to the bloody battlefields where an empire was won and lost. Meticulously researched and rich with vivid detail, this sweeping history, reminiscent of the works of Simon Schama, Mary Beard’s SPQR, and Tom Holland’s Rubicon, recreates this remarkable era and the woman at its turbulent center. Translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor “[Cleopatra] combines scholarship with novelistic detail and character depth…[Alberto Angela] effectively draws on previous scholarship, wading through legend and myth to get at the truth of what actually occurred… a character-rich historical biography.” -- Kirkus Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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The First Kingdom by Max Adams
Feb 4, 202116:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432772to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Kingdom Author: Max Adams Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 1 minute Release date: February 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the dim void between the departure from Britain of the Roman legions at the start of the fifth century and the days of the venerable Bede, the kingdoms of Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? And out of what? Max Adams scrutinizes the narrative handed down to us by later historians and chronicles, stripping away the most lurid nonsense about Arthur and synthesizing the research of the last forty years to tease out strands of reality from myth. His central theme evolves from an apparently simple question: how, after the end of the Roman state, were people taxed? Rejecting ethnic and nationalist explanations for the emergence of the Early Medieval kingdoms, Adams shows how careful use of a wide range of perspectives from anthropology to geography can deliver a picture of the emergence of distinct polities in the sixth century that survive long enough to be embedded in the medieval landscape, recorded in the lines of river, road and watershed and in place names.
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
Jan 5, 202116:02:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436101to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason Author: Charles Freeman Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization. When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine's decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett
Nov 10, 202010:49:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444209to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty Series: #2 of Turning Points in Ancient History Author: Anthony A. Barrett Narrator: John Telfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: This gripping audiobook narrated by John Telfer provides an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire and the lasting harm it inflicted on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, 64 AD and fiddled while the city burned. It's a story that has been told for more than two millennia—and it's likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate aftermath, and its damaging longterm consequences for the Roman world. Drawing on remarkable new archaeological discoveries and sifting through all the literary evidence, he tells what is known about what actually happened—and argues that the disaster was a turning point in Roman history, one that ultimately led to the fall of Nero and the end of the dynasty that began with Julius Caesar. Rome Is Burning tells how the fire destroyed much of the city and threw the population into panic. It describes how it also destroyed Nero's golden image and provoked a financial crisis and currency devaluation that made a permanent impact on the Roman economy. Most importantly, the book surveys recent archaeological evidence that shows visible traces of the fire's destruction. Finally, the book describes the fire's continuing afterlife in literature, opera, ballet, and film. A richly detailed and scrupulously factual narrative of an event that has always been shrouded in myth, Rome Is Burning promises to become the standard account of the Great Fire of Rome for our time.
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Life and Death in the Roman Suburb by Allison L.C. Emmerson
Nov 10, 202008:33:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445375to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life and Death in the Roman Suburb Author: Allison L.C. Emmerson Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this separation, an unexpected phenomenon marked the Augustan and early Imperial periods: Roman cities developed suburbs, built-up areas beyond their boundaries, where the living and the dead came together in densely urban environments. Life and Death in the Roman Suburb examines these districts, drawing on the archaeological remains of cities across Italy to understand the character of Roman suburbs and to illuminate the factors that led to their rise and decline, focusing especially on the tombs of the dead. Whereas work on Roman cities has tended to pass over funerary material, and research on death has concentrated on issues seen as separate from urbanism, Emmerson introduces a new paradigm, considering tombs within their suburban surroundings of shops, houses, workshops, garbage dumps, extramural sanctuaries, and major entertainment buildings, in order to trace the many roles they played within living cities.
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Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places by Annette Giesecke
Nov 10, 202014:54:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419243to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places Author: Annette Giesecke Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies, Corrie James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich, fascinating definitions of 700 major and minor characters, creatures, and places of classical mythology. Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythology. Written by Annette Giesecke, PhD, Professor of Classics and Chair of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Delaware, this brilliant reference offers clear explanations of every character and locale, and captures the essence of these timeless tales. From the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus and the heroes of the Trojan War to the nymphs, monsters, and other mythical creatures that populate these ancient stories, Giesecke recounts, with clarity and energy, the details of more than 700 characters and places. Each definition includes cross-references to related characters, locations, and myths, as well their equivalent in Roman mythology and cult. In addition to being an important standalone work, Classical Mythology A-to-Z is also written, designed, and illustrated to serve as an essential companion to the bestselling illustrated 75th-anniversary edition of Mythology by Edith Hamilton, including 10 full-color plates and 2-color illustrations throughout by artist Jim Tierney.
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Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
Oct 29, 202011:10:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436597to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold Series: #3 of Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths Author: Stephen Fry Narrator: Stephen Fry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.41 of Total 113 Ratings of Narrator: 4.52 of Total 23 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' -- Observer THE #1 BESTSELLER. AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS. 'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .' When Helen, the beautiful Greek queen, is kidnapped by the Trojan prince Paris, the most legendary war of all time begins. Listen in awe as a thousand ships are launched against the great city of Troy. Feel the fury of the battleground as the Trojans stand resolutely against Greek might for an entire decade. And witness the epic climax - the wooden horse, delivered to the city of Troy in a masterclass of deception by the Greeks . . . In Stephen Fry's exceptional retelling of our greatest story, TROY will transport you to the depths of ancient Greece and beyond. If you're enthralled by the magic of Greek mythology you'll love the final instalment to Fry’s retellings, ODYSSEY, a legendary voyage of peril, temptation, loss and epic adventure. 'A fun romp through the world's greatest story. Fry's knowledge of the world - ancient and modern - bursts through' Daily Telegraph 'Hugely successful, graceful' The Times 'Fluent, crisp, nuanced, begins with a bang' The Times Literary Supplement © Stephen Fry 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
Oct 13, 202020:36:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423422to listen full audiobooks. Title: Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Narrator: Neil Dickson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: 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. Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II of Macedon. Philip inherited a minor kingdom that was on the verge of dismemberment, but despite his youth and inexperience, he made Macedonia dominant throughout Greece. It was Philip who created the armies that Alexander led into war against Persia. In Philip and Alexander, classical historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows that without the work and influence of his father, Alexander could not have achieved so much. This is the groundbreaking biography of two men who together conquered the world.
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