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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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In SPQR, world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.
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- 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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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was - more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? - and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath....
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Mary Beard always delivers excellence.
- By Permutation on 2023-11-08
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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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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- Written by: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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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. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths.
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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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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
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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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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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial.
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- 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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SPQR
- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- Written by: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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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, nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto de su historia: una historia que, nos dice, «al cabo de dos mil años, sigue siendo la base de nuestra cultura y nuestra política, de cómo vemos el mundo y nuestro lugar en él».
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SPQR
- 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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The Roman Triumph
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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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 statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days. A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side.
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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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The Parthenon
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this audiobook conducts listeners through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world.
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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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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
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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 Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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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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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
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
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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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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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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 original reality?
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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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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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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. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image.
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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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Women of Westminster
- The MPs who Changed Politics
- Written by: Rachel Reeves, Mary Beard - foreword
- Narrated by: Rachel Reeves, Harriet Harman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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In the past 100 years, a total of 489 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2015 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable - Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers, and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality, from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay to Harriet Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap.
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Women of Westminster
- The MPs who Changed Politics
- Narrated by: Rachel Reeves, Harriet Harman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-07
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Civilization, Vol. 1
- The Agricultural Era
- Written by: Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 30 hrs and 58 mins
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Charles A. Beard, a proponent of the “New History", emphasized the importance of cultural economic developments as opposed to just warfare and diplomacy.
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The Rise of American Civilization, Vol. 1
- The Agricultural Era
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Series: The Rise of American Civilization, Book 1
- Length: 30 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-23
- Language: English
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Mujeres y poder
- Un manifiesto
- Written by: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió - traductor
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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Mary Beard no es solo la clasicista más famosa a nivel internacional; es también una feminista comprometida y como tal se manifiesta asiduamente en las redes sociales. En este libro muestra, con ironía y sabiduría, cómo la historia ha tratado a las mujeres y personajes femeninos poderosos. Beard explora los fundamentos culturales de la misoginia, considerando la voz pública de las mujeres, nuestras suposiciones culturales sobre la relación de las mujeres con el poder y cuánto se resisten las mujeres poderosas a ser sometidas a un patrón masculino.
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Mujeres y poder
- Un manifiesto
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-31
- Language: Spanish
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