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The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline
- De: Sallust, Cicero
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
A bloody revolt by a North African prince and a plot to seize control of Rome are the subjects of two short masterpieces of ancient history by the illustrious Roman chronicler, Sallust. He could not have chosen two more dramatic episodes in the long history of this city.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Production
- De cbrann en 04-22-05
De: Sallust, y otros
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Rubicon
- The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 241
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you’re looking for a history book, this isn’t it.
- De Richard Sweeny en 12-16-22
De: Tom Holland
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The Birth of Britain
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 948
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 945
The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Birth of Britain
- De Terryl Pettengill en 02-11-07
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Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,538
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,372
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Accessible, enjoyable history
- De Mary en 01-28-16
De: Tom Holland
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- De: Plutarch, James Romm - preface and notes, Pamela Mensch - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific
- De Michael en 06-13-23
De: Plutarch, y otros
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Last Stands
- Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
- De: Michael Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Walsh
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 359
What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home and country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical facts
- De Mark Twain en 02-18-21
De: Michael Walsh
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The Sacred Band
- Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
- De: James Romm
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes - and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stop now and don’t buy this book.
- De Robert Pitman en 06-08-21
De: James Romm
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The Story of the Goths
- De: Henry Bradley
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
The Goths are the most enigmatic of all the ancient German tribes. Their name today is still widely in use for a variety of cultural and artistic movements. But unlike other famous German tribes whose names are still descriptive of nations they founded - the Franks, the Lombards, the Angles, the Saxons and the Alemanni - the Goths simply disappeared. The subject of Henry Bradley's splendid short history is tracing the rise, the migrations, and the impact of the Goths on European history along with their spectacular fall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Book about a little understood people
- De Mark en 07-29-15
De: Henry Bradley
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The Byzantine Empire
- De: Charles Oman
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The Byzantine Empire survived as a self-contained political entity longer than any other in the history of Christianity. This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution. It is a strange tale populated by some of the most interesting men and women who have ever lived.
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4 out of 5 stars
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adequate good book. great reader
- De Felisa Kay en 01-30-21
De: Charles Oman
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Rome's Last Citizen
- The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
- De: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past-and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took his own life rather than live under a dictator.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunate
- De Olivia N. en 11-06-20
De: Rob Goodman, y otros
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Alexander the Great
- His Life and His Mysterious Death
- De: Anthony Everitt
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 244
In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander’s life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, as well as the man who enjoyed the arts and used Homer’s great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over his vast territory. But his career also had a dark side.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alexander never gets...old.
- De Douglas Knops en 09-04-19
De: Anthony Everitt
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Jerusalem’s Traitor
- Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea
- De: Desmond Seward
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews’ only hope of survival lay in surrender to Rome.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of Josephus's "The Jewish War"
- De DAG en 10-09-16
De: Desmond Seward
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Nero
- Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
- De: Anthony Everitt, Roddy Ashworth
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. He then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. But these stories, left behind by contemporary historians who hated him, are hardly the full picture, and in this nuanced biography, celebrated historian Anthony Everitt and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing 360 degree portrait
- De Cooper A Day en 01-01-23
De: Anthony Everitt, y otros
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Philip and Alexander
- Kings and Conquerors
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Neil Dickson
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 359
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narrator
- De Anonymous User en 01-05-21
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Ancient Rome
- The Rise and Fall of An Empire
- De: Simon Baker
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clear and dramatic
- De Tad Davis en 08-01-17
De: Simon Baker
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These three vibrant texts show different sides of the Roman historian Tacitus. Agricola was a successful general and Governor of Britain (77-83CE), a task which he carried out with firmness and probity. Tacitus' account of Germania shows a very different land with its many tribes, their habits and qualities in a strongly rural and resistant environment. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, by contrast, is placed decidedly at the heart of Roman culture, a survey of rhetoric and the art of eloquence.
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In Germania, Roman historian Tacitus presents an impressive history of Germanic tribes and their societies. He dives deep, discussing everything from their ancestry to their government. The work also explores the similarities and differences between the values and customs of Roman and Germanic societies. Germania is a monumental ethnographic work that provides fascinating insight into early Germanic cultures and Roman attitudes toward them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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horrible voice
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The Annals
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- De: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
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Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and "the artist" Nero. In particular, his account of the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Nero brims with plots, murder, poisoning, suicide, uprisings, death, and destruction. The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating history, well done in all regards
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De: Tacitus, y otros
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Njál's Saga
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Njál 's Saga is a mesmerizing drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions that perpetuate it. The eponymous sage Njál, known for his keen legal mind, is one of Iceland's pre-eminent men, along with Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a fierce and formidable warrior married to the diabolical Hallgerd, whose conniving instigates the interminable pattern of romance, action and brutality - until one unforgivable act ends it all.
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2 out of 5 stars
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censored version
- De Amazon Customer en 01-26-21
De: Anonymous
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The Annals
- De: Tacitus
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The Annals, written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (56c-120 CE), is regarded as one of the great literary works of history in the Roman world. Tacitus is considered by many to be the greatest of Roman historians, and The Annals is his’ outstanding achievement. Originally comprising 18 volumes, books 7 to 10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 have been lost, but those that remain, read here by Martyn Swain, tell the fascinating tale of the Julio Claudian emperors and their times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the best Roman narration
- De Arnar Styr Björnsson en 09-01-23
De: Tacitus
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The Prose Edda
- The Rasmus Björn Anderson Translation
- De: Snorri Sturluson
- Narrado por: Collin Moore
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Eight hundred years ago, an heir to the Vikings collected their myths and wrote them down. Here are those original tales of Odin and Thor, magic and might, presented for your listening enjoyment. The Prose Edda (also known as Snorri's Edda or The Younger Edda) is a manual of poetics written by Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220. In it, Snorri compiled the old myths and legends of the Norsemen, in order that poets from his time might draw on these stories to keep the Icelandic-Viking heritage alive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-performed, but the names are tough going
- De Tad Davis en 11-12-21
De: Snorri Sturluson
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Agricola, Germania, A Dialogue Concerning Oratory
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- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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These three vibrant texts show different sides of the Roman historian Tacitus. Agricola was a successful general and Governor of Britain (77-83CE), a task which he carried out with firmness and probity. Tacitus' account of Germania shows a very different land with its many tribes, their habits and qualities in a strongly rural and resistant environment. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, by contrast, is placed decidedly at the heart of Roman culture, a survey of rhetoric and the art of eloquence.
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In Germania, Roman historian Tacitus presents an impressive history of Germanic tribes and their societies. He dives deep, discussing everything from their ancestry to their government. The work also explores the similarities and differences between the values and customs of Roman and Germanic societies. Germania is a monumental ethnographic work that provides fascinating insight into early Germanic cultures and Roman attitudes toward them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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horrible voice
- De B1886 en 03-28-24
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- De: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and "the artist" Nero. In particular, his account of the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Nero brims with plots, murder, poisoning, suicide, uprisings, death, and destruction. The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating history, well done in all regards
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- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Njál 's Saga is a mesmerizing drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions that perpetuate it. The eponymous sage Njál, known for his keen legal mind, is one of Iceland's pre-eminent men, along with Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a fierce and formidable warrior married to the diabolical Hallgerd, whose conniving instigates the interminable pattern of romance, action and brutality - until one unforgivable act ends it all.
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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- Narrado por: Collin Moore
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Eight hundred years ago, an heir to the Vikings collected their myths and wrote them down. Here are those original tales of Odin and Thor, magic and might, presented for your listening enjoyment. The Prose Edda (also known as Snorri's Edda or The Younger Edda) is a manual of poetics written by Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220. In it, Snorri compiled the old myths and legends of the Norsemen, in order that poets from his time might draw on these stories to keep the Icelandic-Viking heritage alive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-performed, but the names are tough going
- De Tad Davis en 11-12-21
De: Snorri Sturluson