Barry Strauss Audio Books

Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.

On a late September day in 480 BC, Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world.

William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair.

Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why....

The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world....

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature.

A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.