Classical Antiquity

A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome and How These Civilizations Influenced Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Richard L. Walton

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the captivating history of classical antiquity, then pay attention....

From about the ninth to fifth centuries BCE, the population of Greece grew unprecedentedly large, expanding from about 800,000 people to as many as 13 million. About a quarter million of these lived in Athens. The average size of urban households during this period grew considerably, a fact that suggests that food was suddenly available in excesses sufficient to keep larger families healthy and alive much more effectively than just a millennium earlier. Bigger families meant bigger armies and larger communities that would eventually grow into the metropolises of Classical Greece.

This incredible stretch of time is called classical antiquity, the age in which Western civilization first realized its potential and place in the world. The era brought on big changes for all the people of the Mediterranean. Thanks to new agricultural methods, seafaring technology, and trade, great civilizations sprang up around the sea, building large urban centers full of artists, merchants, political thinkers, scientists, and philosophers. As Greco-Roman culture grew, the relationships each city and realm had with one another also developed and changed.

In Classical Antiquity: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome and How These Civilizations Influenced Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, you will discover topics such as

• A blind poet from Ionia
• Athens, Greece
• Slavery
• The Golden Age of Athens
• Pericles at war
• The Socratic method
• Plato
• Alexander the Great
• The Hellenistic period
• From Greece to Rome
• The Roman Republic
• The gladiators
• Julius Caesar
• Remnants of classical antiquity
• And much, much more!

So if you want to learn more about classical antiquity, listen to this audiobook!

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Consolidating the specialized research

Easily understood content through time from where we were to where we are now.
I would suggest this book to anyone engaged in European history.

Brilliant and simply great!

This is much more interesting. For those genuinely interested in the history of Greece and Rome, its republic, and then its dictators, and its ultimate fall, I recommend this as a better starting place than the classic audible.

Would definitely recommend.

This is without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever seen about Ancient Greece and Rome, it’s leaders, significant events, notable people, regular citizens, military engagements, and of course, governance.

Ancient Greece and Rome inside out

I would listen to it for 3 hrs and 8 mins on end, the writing is so immeasurable. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know more about Greece and Rome and how they grew.

Extremely comprehensive

I have planned a trip to Athens, and then because of this book was confident enough to be able to design an impromptu overnight trip to Kalambaka.

The best guidebook to the ancient

This book is a must for anyone who intends more than a superficial few hours in Rome, not on a tourist bus, but by driving the winding streets of Rome with a bottle of water, a good pair of walking shoes, and this book as your guide.

Good book, Level of the content is great.

The book is 3 hrs and 8 mins. It would be better in notebook fashion. It's really pretty good as a high-level view of places to go and things to do

Nice coverage of the era.

A pleasant excursion through Greece and Roman history, including social, economic, and cultural history. Definitely recommended.

Masterpiece and absolute page turner

Good listening on history of Greece and Rome. This audiobook is a good stuff if you are wanting a very high level overview of close to 1000 years of Roman and Greece history with a few background stories to round out the characters.
Overall, Ill keep it in my library.

Absolutely great guide.

An excellent reference for the Greek and Rome Traveler.
If you didn't want to rely on the internet while traveling abroad and this was very useful to carry.