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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Auteur(s): Thucydides
- Narrateur(s): Mike Rogers
- Durée: 22 h et 36 min
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The rivalry between two of the dominant city states of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, erupted into a war lasting nearly 30 years and was to have a dramatic effect on the balance of power in the area. Between 431 and 404 BCE, the two cities battled it out on land and sea, aided by their alliances with neighbouring states: Athens’ Delian League vigorously opposed Sparta’s Peloponnesian League in a conflict which effectively involved the whole region.
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The Peloponnesian War
- Auteur(s): Thucydides
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 26 h et 17 min
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Historians universally agree that Thucydides was the greatest historian who has ever lived, and that his story of the Peloponnesian conflict is a marvel of forensic science and fine literature. That such a triumph of intellectual accomplishment was created at the end of the fifth century B.C. in Greece is, perhaps, not so surprising, given the number of original geniuses we find in that period. But that such an historical work would also be simultaneously acknowledged as a work of great literature and a penetrating ethical evaluation of humanity is one of the miracles of ancient history.
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labeling of chapters is poor.
- Écrit par Lea le 2019-01-27
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- Auteur(s): Plutarch
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 83 h et 11 min
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Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about 20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia. His best known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek life and one Roman life as well as four unpaired single lives.
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Herodotus: The Father of History
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Vandiver
- Durée: 12 h et 17 min
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Witness the "works and wonders" of the ancient world through the eyes of its first great historian in this sparkling series of 24 lectures from a much-honored teacher and classical scholar.Herodotus (c. 484-420 B.C.E.) was a Greek who was born in what is now the modern Turkish resort town of Bodrum and who died, so tradition says, in the south of Italy. In between, his tirelessly inquiring mind took him from one corner of the known world to another.
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- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-11-19
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- Auteur(s): Sir James George Frazer
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Cullum
- Durée: 44 h et 16 min
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The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding that there was an observable pattern in the way magic developed into religion, though formal expression emerged in different ways.
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The Aeneid
- Auteur(s): Virgil
- Narrateur(s): Simon Callow
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Auteur(s): Thucydides
- Narrateur(s): Mike Rogers
- Durée: 22 h et 36 min
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The rivalry between two of the dominant city states of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, erupted into a war lasting nearly 30 years and was to have a dramatic effect on the balance of power in the area. Between 431 and 404 BCE, the two cities battled it out on land and sea, aided by their alliances with neighbouring states: Athens’ Delian League vigorously opposed Sparta’s Peloponnesian League in a conflict which effectively involved the whole region.
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The Peloponnesian War
- Auteur(s): Thucydides
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 26 h et 17 min
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Historians universally agree that Thucydides was the greatest historian who has ever lived, and that his story of the Peloponnesian conflict is a marvel of forensic science and fine literature. That such a triumph of intellectual accomplishment was created at the end of the fifth century B.C. in Greece is, perhaps, not so surprising, given the number of original geniuses we find in that period. But that such an historical work would also be simultaneously acknowledged as a work of great literature and a penetrating ethical evaluation of humanity is one of the miracles of ancient history.
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labeling of chapters is poor.
- Écrit par Lea le 2019-01-27
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- Auteur(s): Plutarch
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 83 h et 11 min
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Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about 20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia. His best known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek life and one Roman life as well as four unpaired single lives.
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Herodotus: The Father of History
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Vandiver
- Durée: 12 h et 17 min
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Witness the "works and wonders" of the ancient world through the eyes of its first great historian in this sparkling series of 24 lectures from a much-honored teacher and classical scholar.Herodotus (c. 484-420 B.C.E.) was a Greek who was born in what is now the modern Turkish resort town of Bodrum and who died, so tradition says, in the south of Italy. In between, his tirelessly inquiring mind took him from one corner of the known world to another.
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Well delivered and covered
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-11-19
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- Auteur(s): Sir James George Frazer
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Cullum
- Durée: 44 h et 16 min
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The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding that there was an observable pattern in the way magic developed into religion, though formal expression emerged in different ways.
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The Aeneid
- Auteur(s): Virgil
- Narrateur(s): Simon Callow
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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The Aeneid
- Auteur(s): Virgil
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 15 h et 36 min
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The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization. Within the brooding and melancholy atmosphere of Virgil's pious masterpiece lies the mythic story of Aeneas and his flight from burning Troy, taking with him across the Mediterranean the survivors of the Greek onslaught. Aeneas, after many travails and adventures, including a love affair with Dido Queen of Carthage and a visit to the underworld to see his father, ends up in Italy.
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Well Read, Clear translation
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-10-10
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The Iliad
- Auteur(s): Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrateur(s): Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Durée: 8 h et 44 min
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Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
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Heavily Redacted Version
- Écrit par Peter van den Bergh le 2020-12-09
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The Commentaries
- Auteur(s): Julius Caesar
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 14 h et 22 min
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Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army. The Gallic Wars and The Civil Wars constitute the greatest series of military dispatches ever written. As literature, they are representative of the finest expressions of Latin prose in its "golden" age, a benchmark of elegant style and masculine brevity imitated by young schoolboys for centuries.
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Passionnant
- Écrit par S. Morgan le 2020-03-07
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The Odyssey
- Auteur(s): Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrateur(s): Ian McKellen
- Durée: 13 h et 3 min
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The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods - makes his tortuous way home to his faithful wife, Penelope. Shipwrecked numerous times, faced with apparently insurmountable obstacles, offered the temptations of ease, comfort, and even immortality, Odysseus remains steadfast and determined. Themes of courage and perseverance, fidelity and fortitude.
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Reading & Story - good. Recording quality-lacking.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-28
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The History of Rome: The Complete Works
- Auteur(s): Titus Livy, Cyrus Edmunds - translator, William A. McDevitte - translator
- Narrateur(s): Alastair Cameron
- Durée: 88 h et 57 min
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Titus Livy's only known surviving work is a monumental history of Rome that was originally written in Latin. It is estimated that Livy's The History of Rome was written between 27 and 9 BC and covers the legends of Aeneas, the fall of Troy, the city's founding in 753 BC, and Livy's account ends with the reign of Emperor Augustus. The History of Rome is a must-have for anyone interested in ancient history and the Roman era. With colorful detail and intriguing insight, Titus brings to life some of the most turbulent times in human history.
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The March of the Ten Thousand
- Auteur(s): Xenophon
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Translated by W. E. D. Rouse, The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most admired and widely read pieces of ancient literature to come down to us. Xenophon employs a very simple, straightforward style to describe what is probably the most exciting military adventure ever undertaken. It is an epic of courage, faith and democratic principle.
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Can listen to this again and again
- Écrit par Stuart le 2018-05-15
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The Iliad
- A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
- Auteur(s): Homer, Caroline Alexander - translator
- Narrateur(s): Dominic Keating
- Durée: 19 h et 46 min
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Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander's new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source - a translation epic in scale yet devastating in its precision and power.
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beautiful story, beautifully orated
- Écrit par Nate le 2020-11-13
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Great Mythologies of the World
- Auteur(s): The Great Courses, Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Kathryn McClymond, Autres
- Durée: 31 h et 36 min
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The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies. Explore the mythologies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Learn what makes these stories so important, distinctive, and able to withstand the test of time. Discover how, despite geographical implausibilities, many myths from across the oceans share themes, morals, and archetypes.
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Tinny Sound Made it Very Difficult to Listen To
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-06-18
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The Jewish War
- Auteur(s): Flavius Josephus
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 23 h et 40 min
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In AD 66, nationalist and religious revolutionaries in Judaea led a ferocious revolt of the Jewish people against the authority of mighty Rome, culminating in the greatest upheaval and savagery the world had known up to that time. By the end of the conflict seven years later, over one million Jews had perished and tens of thousands were sold into slavery. Until the Holocaust, it remained the greatest tragedy ever endured by a people. How had this once prosperous region been laid low, and by what process did its fratricidal feuds take it down a slippery slope to utter annihilation? Fortunately for us, there was an eyewitness.
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The Persian Empire
- Auteur(s): John W. Lee, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): John W. Lee
- Durée: 11 h et 59 min
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Over the span of 24 fascinating lectures, you'll take on the role of a history detective to discover the truth about the Persian Empire. You'll discover the key to the empire's success lay in its greatest rulers, each of whom played a critical role in shaping and strengthening a civilization we still remember today. Take this opportunity to complete your understanding of the ancient world and discover the humanity of the ancient Persians.
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Ahhh those Persians!
- Écrit par Shervin V. le 2018-05-27
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Auteur(s): Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrateur(s): Dan Stevens
- Durée: 13 h et 59 min
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Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" ( Library Journal).
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Delightful
- Écrit par JeanClur le 2019-03-27
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The Metamorphoses
- Auteur(s): Ovid
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 16 h et 11 min
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An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends, seamlessly moving from one story to another in a splendid panorama of savage beauty, charm, and wit. All of the gods and heroes familiar to us are represented. Such familiar legends as Hercules, Perseus and Medusa, Daedelus and Icarus, Diana and Actaeon, and many others, are breathtakingly recreated.
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A Tale as Old as Time
- Écrit par Melissa le 2019-03-04
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style. Perhaps most famously, the book tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, king of Persia. Here are not only the great battles - Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis - but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work.
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- scottrs
- 2018-11-16
Entertaining
This is an entertaining performance of the histories. The content of the story itself needs no review as it has been quite heavily analyzed by people more qualified than myself
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- Kindle Customer
- 2018-09-20
I haven’t managed to get through it yet.
I’ve been slogging alone but I’m finding this one a hard one to get through. I feel like I need to know the names and more background before I can appreciate it. #Audible1
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- John
- 2016-11-06
Very Entertaining
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I am a big history fan. However, I hesitated to purchase Herodotus' Histories as I was concerned it might be excessively archaic, difficult to follow, etc. Not so! The narrative is very entertaining, mixing history, anthropology, and myth. The reader is terrific--he seems perfectly suited to the material. I highly recommend this audio book to fans of history, and of the ancient Near East in particular.
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- John
- 2019-10-07
Herodotus + Vandiver = 2 Well-Spent Credits
Late in his life, Churchill was asked which year of that eventful life he would most like to relive. He responded unhesitatingly: 1940. Existential conflicts, where all the chips are on the table and the life or death of a culture hangs in the balance, have that kind of totemic power. It’s why we never tire of reliving that year in books and films. And it’s one of the reasons—perhaps the main reason—why Herodotus’ account of the years 490 and 480-479 BC never seem to gather as much dust as other ancient books. Granted, the two failed Persian invasions of Greece take up a mere fraction of the Histories (and the final fraction at that.) But everything that goes before is an essential prelude. After all, for Herodotus, the Persian Wars are just the most recent chapter in a conflict that predates even the Trojan War. The setting of the drama is the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia; Herodotus paints a vivid picture of the customs and commerce, conflicts and conquests that shaped that vast region up until the final Greco-Persian showdown. It’s a tremendously entertaining story in and of itself. Admittedly, there are moments—frequent with me—when you ask questions like, “Were the Persians really named after Perseus?” or “Why doesn’t Herodotus accept the theory that melting snow makes the Nile flood?” Here’s where I can’t recommend Professor Elizabeth Vandiver’s lectures on the Histories too highly. Listening to both recordings in tandem, the lectures become your footnotes (and Cliff’s Notes), giving everything from illuminating details to the broader intellectual milieu in which Herodotus worked and the shape of the book he left us. Plus, she’s a great teacher. David Timson turns in his usual spectacular performance here, rendering even the more tedious passages—such as the Homeric catalogue of Persian forces—listenable. For over 27 hours, he knows precisely where to place every emphasis and inuendo.
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- Eve Howard
- 2017-10-14
Bloody Good Read!
The father of historical writing describes the granddaddy of all wars, the Greco-Persian conflicts, in biblically gory detail. This is much too exciting and dreadful to listen to right before going to bed. It's a magnificent tale, not only of wars but of cultures, customs and shocking rituals. Anyone who loves histories will eat this book up, and it's read charmingly too.
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- Emily
- 2016-07-19
Best of Audible's "The Histories" by Herodotus
Any additional comments? "The Histories," by ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, is full of myths, folklore, legends, historical facts and tall tales. Herodotus basically traveled around the ancient world asking people questions about their lives and cultures and histories, and then wrote down whatever they told him. Because of this reporting style he is known as both the Father of History and The Father of Lies. Whether he records true tales or tall tales, it is interesting to know what ancient people said and thought about their world. He covers a lot of ground, figuratively and literally. His writing style flows like the Meander river; full of twists and turns. I've listened to all the versions available on Audible up to 2016, and I feel David Timson's narration is best suited to Herodotus' tangential asides. His conversational style is engaging and enthusiastic. It's nice to hear someone giving the proper excitement for topics like the Battle of Marathon, Persian Culture, Egyptian Culture, Peloponnesian War, Greek-Persian Wars, the Artemesium battle, the Amazons and the Spartans at Thermopylae. The 9 books are named after the 9 Muses, so here's a breakdown of topics: Book 1 Lydia, Medes, Persia, Cyrus Book 2 Egyptian And African History, Customs, Geography Book 3 Cambyses Conquers Egypt; Cambyses' Death; Smerdis; Darius; 20 Persian Satrapies Book 4 Europeans; Darius Fails To Conquer Scythia; Greek Colonies In Libya (Cyrene, Barca); Persia Invades Libya Book 5 Persia Conquers Thrace, Paeonians; Ionian Revolt Under Aristagoras Of Miletus; Former Athens-Sparta Conflicts; Athenian Tyrants & Democracy; Conflict Between Athens And Darius Begins Book 6 Miletus Conquered & Ionian Revolt Quelled; Thrace, Athos, Macedonia Fall; Rivalry Between Spartan Clemenes & Demaratus; Athens-Aegina Conflict; Athens & Plataeans Defeat Persia At Marathon Under Miltiades Book 7 Darius Dies--Xerxes King; Invasion Of Thrace, Thessalia; Athens And Sparta Unite; Shipwrecks Of Persians; Leonidas' Defeat At Thermopylae Book 8 Battle At Artemesium; Attacks On Phocis, Boeotia, Delphi, Plataea, Athens; Victory At Salamis Book 9 Greek Victories At Plataea (Mardonius Killed); Greeks Attack Thebes; Victory At Mycale, Siege Of Sestos
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- Jay Melican
- 2019-02-15
Great hearing all I would probably never have read
As far as I am concerned Herodotus' Histories is the perfect sort of text for an audio book. It's the foundation of so many stories we know and have heard retold many times. It's amazingly rich with cultural detail and gossip from the ancient world. It's just cool to hear humans trying to work through the meaning of myth and lies and the possibility of an objective historical account. But it is long...and, in places, not as absorbing. I was glad to listen to it because I don't think I could have gotten through it reading. And I was very glad to not be in college needing to remember it all for a test! I would highly recommend Elizabeth Vandiver's lectures on Herodotus: The Father of History as a companion. I listened to Vandiver's lectures before I listened to the full text of Herodotus, and that helped me to keep track of the rambling stories and to contextualize Herodotus' work.
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- Will
- 2017-02-07
It's like story time with a grandparent.
It's like story time with a grandparent. David Timson delivers an engaging presentation of an accessible translation.
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- K. Reay
- 2017-02-08
Best Narrator Ever
David Timson makes this classic a real pleasure to listen to. His voice kept me engaged the whole time. Highly recommend!
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- Grimjack
- 2018-07-05
Bronze Age History Brought to Life
I'd read portions of Histories in High School and College and found the reading pretty tough, especially the passages on geography. David Timson performs a magnificent narration of Herodotus' histories of the Greek and Persian empires that keeps the listener's attention. If your only exposure to the Greek/Persian wars has been via the movies like "300", you owe yourself a listen or reading of these works; Herodotus provides a more balanced perspective of the Persian and Greek conflict and cultures.
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- Jason Kirkendoll
- 2018-03-10
A must listen for the history enthusiast!
What a phenomenal experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the performance as well as the narrative portions.
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- Carolyn
- 2017-03-20
A Delightful Classic
I always enjoy Herodotus, and David Timson does a truly wonderful job as narrator. Many hours of thought-provoking listening pleasure.
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