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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome Author: Stephen Dando-Collins Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Sixty killers, wearing the purple-trimmed togas of Roman senators, unsheathed their hidden daggers to stab the most feared and powerful man in the Empire. Hundreds of their colleagues ran screaming from the Theater of Pompey the Great, proclaiming the bloody deed to the thousands of citizens who clogged the streets outside. It was the most public of crimes. Yet, two millennia after the murder of Julius Caesar, many questions remain unanswered. Was Brutus a treasonous villain or a hero of Rome? Were the killers motivated by noble sentiment or venality? Why did so many of Caesar's formerly loyal lieutenants take part in the murder? InThe Ides, celebrated author and classical researcher Stephen Dando-Collins transports listeners to the streets, palaces, and gathering places of ancient Rome to experience a richly detailed, convincingly accurate, and stunningly suspenseful account of Caesar's final days. He traces the conspiracy that brought the conqueror down, from a surprising holiday meeting between Cassius and Brutus to its chaotic conclusion and beyond. Drawing deeply from ancient manuscripts, Dando-Collins documents Caesar's campaign to persuade the Senate, which had already declared him a 'living god,' to appoint him king of Rome before his planned departure on a military mission on March 19, 44 BC. He reveals why many Romans already considered Caesar a tyrant and why Brutus, who may well have been Caesar's illegitimate son, felt a special obligation to depose this man who would be king. This compelling history follows the mercurial Cassius and even-tempered Brutus as they carefully feel out potential coconspirators, knowing that one wrong choice could be their last. It reveals the dramatic lengths to which Brutus' wife Porcia went to prove he could trust her with his secret; why Caesar, even as the killers paced in restless anticipation of his arrival, canceled the Senate session he had called—and how a close associate convinced him to change his mind. Complete with a thoughtful analysis of why the plotters failed in their aim to restore the Republic and a chilling account of the deadly power struggles that continued for years after Caesar's death,The Idesis a must-have for anyone fascinated with the Roman Empire, military history, and an incredible story well told.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller Author: Martin Dugard, James Patterson Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.46 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall. But what if his fate was actually much more sinister? Now, in THE MURDER OF TUT, James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their epic quest to find out what happened to the boy-king. They comb through the evidence--X-rays, Carter's files, forensic clues--and scavenge for overlooked data to piece together the details of his life and death. The result is a true crime tale of intrigue, betrayal, and usurpation that presents a compelling case that King Tut's death was anything but natural.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization Author: Lars Brownworth Narrator: Lars Brownworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive.  Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt Author: Barbara Mertz Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too. She also presents much fascinating detail on the building of the pyramids and the intricate art of mummification. Students and laymen alike will enjoy the wealth of authentic material on every aspect of Egyptian life that Mertz provides.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt Author: Barbara Mertz Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz combines a doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt. Her love of the subject is contagious and makes her the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those who plan to visit—or have visited—the Nile Valley.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greek Myths Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Michael Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: January 4, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 296 Ratings of Narrator: 4.27 of Total 95 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: The ancient texts we call Greek Myths are our window into the distant past, a view of a world that existed not only in the mind of the poets, but also in the hearts of the humble natives of ancient Greece. Listen to the wonderful journeys and adventures of these ancient Greek Gods and heroes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 7, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/126443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 2 Author: Edward Gibbon Narrator: Neville Jason, Philip Madoc Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 13, 1997 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces. This six-disc recording covers the final three volumes of Gibbon's work, tracing ten centuries in the life of the eastern half of the empire, whose capital city was Constantinople. Among the many figures who stride across Gibbon's stage here are the emperor Justinian I, a noble statesman and successful warrior, brought low by his lascivious wife, the former prostitute Theodora; the murdering Basil I, a peasant who nonetheless proved himself a worthy figure upon which to drape the purple; and the final emperor of all, Constantine XI, who died on the battlements of Constantinople in 1453, valiantly fighting a losing battle to prevent the Turks from gaining a city they had craved for centuries. It is still the work that sets the standard for all histories of the period.