• EMPEROR: The Gods of War, Book 4 (Unabridged)

  • By: Conn Iggulden
  • Narrated by: Paul Blake
  • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (516 ratings)

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EMPEROR: The Gods of War, Book 4 (Unabridged)

By: Conn Iggulden
Narrated by: Paul Blake
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Publisher's summary

The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal.
©2006 Conn Iggulden (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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A Disappointment

I was not familiar with Conn Iggulden and his Emperor series. But as an aficionado of Ancient Roman History, and a former history teacher, I was disappointed this work of historical fiction. It is a compelling story. Rome's civil war pitting Caesar and Pompey, and the inexorable push by Caesar to gain absolute power, yet Iggulden relayed too heavily on the fiction, and not so much on historical accuracy, in ways that were too obviously out of context. A few examples, the story lines involving Julia, Caesar's daughter were completely fabricated, especially with references to a relationship she had with Brutus. Equally, the character of Brutus is mostly exaggerated, especially his being portrayed as an exceptional general, who helped subdue the Ptolemaic attacks on the legions in Alexandria after Pharsalus. The biggest disappointed in this work, however, is the pronunciations of names by the narrator. His pronunciations of famous figures too some getting used to. Cicero is Kickero, Octavian is Octawian, to name just a few. Finally, he covers the decline of Republic with little mention of Cato, whom the narrator calls Kato. Over all, it is an entertaining listen, just not a very accurate historical representation of these dramatic events.

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A LOT DISAPPOINTING

I usually like Conn Iggulden's writing: his first novels were excellent and the Wars of the Roses books were very entertaining. Unfortunately, I came to this Caesar series after I had read Colleen McCullough's awesome Masters of Rome series, and the historical inaccuracies and outright plot-device inventions totally spoiled the listening experience. Colleen gives all her characters depth and credibility, apparently by extensively exploring their historical backgrounds and documented actions to extract an author's sense of motivation and complexity for her characters. Conn on the other hand has paper-mache characters who have little depth at all: Caesar, Brutus, Pompey, Cleopatra etc - these are non-fictional people whose names and reputations have survived for more than 20 centuries but in this reworking of a series of well documented events they resemble secondary characters in a TV soap opera and therefore would, in one's memory, hardly survive the next commercial break.

On the other hand if you know nothing or little of the period and have no urge to find out more than the bare dramatic details then you wont be disappointed.

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Very historically accurate

It's just like you were there. Everything is very vividly explained and you'll enjoy every minute of it.

~ I've listened to over 60 Audiobooks and this one is one of my favorites.

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Absolutely fantastic

Beyond words. So much detail and description by the author incredible read highly recommended for all very very impressive story and most importantly all historical facts are given in detail at the end of each book! A+++

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Wonderful

Great story, geat narration. This series was recommended to me and now I will recommend it to others.

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Good story, fair story teller

Caesar's story is compelling. The narrator is a little stiff, the pronunciation of names sounds contrived.

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Awesome

I have enjoyed this series of books tremendously. The author is one of a kind! I recommend everybody to check it out.

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I'm addicted

Can't get enough of these books. Kind of a guilty pleasure but rip roaring good stories. Great book and great narrator.

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Prepare to cry.

Stephen King? Try Conn King. This guy takes history to new levels of exitment.
You cannot finish this story without shedding tears.

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Great author, bad narrator

This book was difficult to put down, even with a narrator that mispronounced names and made some parts difficult to follow.

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