Greece Biography

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
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    • Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind....

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    • The Hunt for a New Past
    • By: Paul Cartledge
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire....

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    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Peter Crawford
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century....

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • The Story of Civilization, Volume 2
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the heel of forward-marching Rome....

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    • Kings and Conquerors
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Neil Dickson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power....

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    • A Life of Alexander the Great
    • By: F. S. Naiden
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Whatever we may think of Alexander - whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath - most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career....

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    • To the Death of Alexander the Great
    • By: John Bagnell Bury
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 40 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • At the time of his death in 1927, John Bagnell Bury was easily the most honored English historian of his era. Bury, an esteemed Cambridge scholar, wrote what is considered the finest one-volume history of ancient Greece in the English language....

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    • Minor Characters from Major Moments
    • By: Adrian Bliss
    • Narrated by: Adrian Bliss
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • History may be written by the victors, but to get the real story sometimes you have to ask the nobodies.

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    • How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
    • By: Christopher McDougall
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,629 ratings
    • The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere....

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    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Helen of Troy is one of the most evocative names in ancient history. For nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that it can wield....

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    • His Life and His Mysterious Death
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait....

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    • A Biography of Desire
    • By: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times best-selling and award-winning historian....

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    • A Man for Our Times
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers....

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    • By: Plutarch, John Dryden - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 42 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world....

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