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A Survey of Ancient History
Credits: Audio Download
In this eight hour audiobook, five thousand years of history have been condensed into a concise and easy to follow series of lectures.
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A History of Rome
Credits: Audio Download
Part 1 presents the personalities that dominated the struggle for power in ancient rome...
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Story of the World, Volume 1
by Susan Wise Bauer
Credits: Audio CD
This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times.
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
by Paul Cartledge
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty.
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A Survey of The Middle Ages
Credits: Audio Download
In this 12 hour mp3 audiobook, Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance.
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The Wisdom Of Joseph Campbell
by Joseph Campbell
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
This is a collection of conversations between Michael Toms and the late Joseph Campbell, recorded over a span of 12 years.
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Anthology of Mythology
Credits: Audio Download
Mythology has provided an intellectual foundation for the modern world, and has provided inspiration for story tellers and scientists alike.
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Ancient Egypt
Credits: Audio Download
In the dimness of prehistory, more than 10, 000 years ago, man began to settle in the long valley ribboned by the Nile.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Dr. David Neiman
Credits: Audio Download
Dr. Neiman interprets “The Epic of Gilgamesh” - the earliest dramatic epic poem composed about 5,000 years ago, which deals with problems affecting us today.
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Native American Tales, Myths and Legends
Credits: Audio Download
The stories in this collection are drawn mainly from those tribes which lived in the northern and central areas of north america.
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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Credits: Audio CD
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel answers the question: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.
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Greek Gods
by William Smith
Credits: Audio Download
Here we present 14 brief audio sketches of each of the major Greek Deities; providing the listener with information on lineage, characteristics, historical significance and artistic renditions.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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They Saw It Happen
Credits: Audio Download
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945....
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The Trojan War
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Credits: Audio CD
In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclops, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six-headed serpent Scylla.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1
by Edward Gibbon
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts...
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History of the Talmud
by Dr. David Neiman
Credits: Audio Download
The development of the Jewish legal system.
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Credits: MP3 CD
The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...
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Unlocking the Secrets of 2012
by John Major Jenkins
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
Did the ancient Mayans predict that the "end of time" would occur in 2012 . . . or is that a modern misunderstanding of their intended message?
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The Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia...
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Heroes of History
by Will Durant
Credits: Audio CD
At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Credits: Audio Download
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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