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- Narrateur(s): David Timson
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The Peloponnesian War
- Auteur(s): Thucydides
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
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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.
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.
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I mean... I got through it
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
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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 Iliad of Homer
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
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For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the
Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people. Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece -whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the
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Made the Iliad easy to understand
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The Aeneid
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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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Mythos
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Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder. Learned notes from the author offer rich cultural context. This volume is a doorway into a captivating world.
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Amazing
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The Peloponnesian War
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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.
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Auteur(s): Thucydides
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Auteur(s): Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.
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I mean... I got through it
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Auteur(s): Homer, Autres
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
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- Narrateur(s): Mike Rogers
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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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For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the
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Made the Iliad easy to understand
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The Aeneid
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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
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Mythos
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Amazing
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.
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almost excellent
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The Wages of Destruction
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period.
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The Guns of August
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.
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The History of Rome: The Complete Works
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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 American Civil War
- Auteur(s): Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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Excellent and well written
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The New Right
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- Auteur(s): Michael Malice
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From the heterodox right wing of the 1940s to the Buchanan/Rothbard alliance of 1992 and all the way through to what he witnessed personally in Charlottesville, The New Right is a thorough firsthand accounting of the concepts, characters and chronology of this widely misunderstood sociopolitical phenomenon. Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture.
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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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- Julian Ticehurst
- 2022-04-16
Everything to like
An engaging, conversational narration; a well-crafted translation; a consistent natural tone to the whole work.
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- Emily
- 2016-07-19
Best of Audible's "The Histories" by Herodotus
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"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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- Amaze
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- jayinvt
- 2016-11-07
Great!
The narrator sounded as though he wrote the book. To the point bare bones history at its best.
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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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- 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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