Talking Classics
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Talking Classics
- The Shock of the Old
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2026-03-31
- Language: English
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$14.02 or free with 30-day trial
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance11
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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. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of...
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Brilliant!
- By RW on 2025-08-02
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-18
- Language: English
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$24.74 or free with 30-day trial
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance94
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A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and...
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watch her on tv
- By Mackenzie on 2019-07-12
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-19
- Language: English
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$28.08 or free with 30-day trial
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-28
- Language: English
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$23.58 or free with 30-day trial
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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New York Times Bestseller One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic." From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one...
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Good
- By Just on 2021-10-01
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-21
- Language: English
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$12.90 or free with 30-day trial
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SPQR
- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- Written by: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge...
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- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-25
- Language: Spanish
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$25.98 or free with 30-day trial
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary...
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-04
- Language: English
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$14.87 or free with 30-day trial
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Imperator
- Une histoire des empereurs de Rome
- Written by: Mary Beard, Souad Degachi - traducteur, Maxime Shelledy - traducteur
- Narrated by: Hélène Pierre
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Beard braque les projecteurs sur les hommes qui ont gouverné l’Empire romain, de Jules César (assassiné en 44 avant notre ère) à Alexandre Sévère...
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Imperator
- Une histoire des empereurs de Rome
- Narrated by: Hélène Pierre
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-06
- Language: French
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$21.16 or free with 30-day trial
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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- Written by: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation....
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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Series: Wonders of the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-03
- Language: English
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$17.34 or free with 30-day trial
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The Parthenon
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf, it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears - and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon...
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Outstanding
- By RW on 2025-10-14
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The Parthenon
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-24
- Language: English
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$18.37 or free with 30-day trial
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-14
- Language: English
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$23.62 or free with 30-day trial
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their...
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-14
- Language: English
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$17.15 or free with 30-day trial
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The Roman Triumph
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his prisoners, as well as the booty he'd captured, from enemy ships and precious...
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The Roman Triumph
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-28
- Language: English
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$24.97 or free with 30-day trial
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion....
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-14
- Language: English
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$20.48 or free with 30-day trial
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Pompei
- Vita quotidiana in una città dell'antica Roma
- Written by: Mary Beard, Tommaso Casini - traduttore
- Narrated by: Daniele Ornatelli
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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Pompei è un unicum nella storia dell'archeologia, una miniera di informazioni non ancora del tutto esplorata.
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Pompei
- Vita quotidiana in una città dell'antica Roma
- Narrated by: Daniele Ornatelli
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-26
- Language: Italian
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$21.16 or free with 30-day trial
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SPQR
- Storia dell'antica Roma
- Written by: Mary Beard, Aldo Piccato - traduttore
- Narrated by: Umberto Terruso
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Beard ci offre una nuova visione della storia di Roma, caratterizzata da incredibili miti fondativi e grandi istituzioni politiche e sociali, da straordinarie conquiste militari e stupefacenti opere architettoniche, nonché, naturalmente, dalle gesta di personalità celebri: Cicerone, Catilina, G
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- Storia dell'antica Roma
- Narrated by: Umberto Terruso
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-19
- Language: Italian
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$27.93 or free with 30-day trial
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El Partenón
- Tiempo de Historia, Vol. 4
- Written by: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió - traductor
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Desde hace más de dos mil años, el Partenón domina la Acrópolis de Atenas como uno de los símbolos universales de la civilización clásica. Pero ¿Cómo ha llegado a representar ideales tan diversos —democracia, arte, imperio, identidad nacional— a lo largo de los siglos?
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El Partenón
- Tiempo de Historia, Vol. 4
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Series: Tiempo de Historia, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-18
- Language: Spanish
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El Coliseo
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-07
- Language: Spanish
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$19.28 or free with 30-day trial
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