-
The Secret History
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 01-24-18
- Language: English
- Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks
Regular price: $13.64
People who bought this also bought...
-
Organon
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 22 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Aristotle’s Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later. The six essays are: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and On Sophistical Refutations. One of the principal topics of Aristotle’s focus is syllogism, in which two premises (one major, one minor) lead to a conclusion. This features in Prior Analytics and On Interpretation.
-
The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- By Earth Lover on 07-30-18
-
The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period, Volume 1
- Timaeus, Critias, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, David Timson, Peter Kenny, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
These five very different Socratic Dialogues date from Plato's later period, when he was revisiting his early thoughts and conclusions and showing a willingness for revision. In Timaeus (mainly a monologue read by David Timson in the title role), Plato considers cosmology in terms of the nature and structure of the universe, the ever-changing physical world and the unchanging eternal world. And he proposes a demiurge as a benevolent creator God.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Perfectly performed and antidote for what ails us
- By Gary on 02-23-18
-
The Laws
- The Socratic Dialogues Late Period, Volume 2
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy, Hayward Morse, Sam Dale
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
The Laws is the longest of Plato’s Dialogues and actually doesn’t feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger’ who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta). The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave of Dicte, where, legend reports, Zeus was born.
-
Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Classic Economics Text - A Good Listen
- By Earth Lover on 04-01-18
-
Roman History, Volume 2
- By: Dio Cassius
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Volume Two of Dio Cassius brings to a close his sweeping historical work, Roman History. This volume begins with book 50 and the struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony. Octavian's victory is the beginning of the Principate and a new direction in Roman history. Dio takes a prolonged look at the reign of Augustus.
-
Organon
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 22 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Aristotle’s Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later. The six essays are: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and On Sophistical Refutations. One of the principal topics of Aristotle’s focus is syllogism, in which two premises (one major, one minor) lead to a conclusion. This features in Prior Analytics and On Interpretation.
-
The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- By Earth Lover on 07-30-18
-
The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period, Volume 1
- Timaeus, Critias, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, David Timson, Peter Kenny, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
These five very different Socratic Dialogues date from Plato's later period, when he was revisiting his early thoughts and conclusions and showing a willingness for revision. In Timaeus (mainly a monologue read by David Timson in the title role), Plato considers cosmology in terms of the nature and structure of the universe, the ever-changing physical world and the unchanging eternal world. And he proposes a demiurge as a benevolent creator God.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Perfectly performed and antidote for what ails us
- By Gary on 02-23-18
-
The Laws
- The Socratic Dialogues Late Period, Volume 2
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy, Hayward Morse, Sam Dale
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
The Laws is the longest of Plato’s Dialogues and actually doesn’t feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger’ who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta). The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave of Dicte, where, legend reports, Zeus was born.
-
Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Classic Economics Text - A Good Listen
- By Earth Lover on 04-01-18
-
Roman History, Volume 2
- By: Dio Cassius
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Volume Two of Dio Cassius brings to a close his sweeping historical work, Roman History. This volume begins with book 50 and the struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony. Octavian's victory is the beginning of the Principate and a new direction in Roman history. Dio takes a prolonged look at the reign of Augustus.
-
On the Soul & Parva Naturalia
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Two contrasting reflections by Aristotle which cover very particular ground. In 'On the Soul', Aristotle presents his view of the 'life essence' which, he argues, is possessed by living things whether plants, animals or humans. Not a 'soul' in the generally accepted Western use of the term, this 'soul', he says, is a life force that is indivisible from the organism that possesses it.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
DeAnima. Aristotle on the soul.
- By Cavazos on 07-28-18
-
Roman History, Volume 1
- By: Dio Cassius
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian of Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of history on ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the subsequent founding of Rome (753 BC), the formation of the republic (509 BC), and the creation of the empire (31 BC). The history continues until AD 229.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another great ancient text by mr griffin...
- By mohadcheridi on 01-27-18
-
The Socratic Dialogues Early Period, Volume 2
- Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus, Lesser Hippias, Greater Hippias
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 25
Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and with one of his pupils, Callicles.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Plato was woke af & David R sounded straight fire
- By shahrukh on 05-14-18
-
The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 2
- Phaedrus, Cratylus, Parmenides
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Laurence Kennedy, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works. It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love - erotic and 'Platonic' love. Socrates endeavours to steer Phaedrus away from infatuation and show him that real love is based on concern for the beloved.
-
A Theologico-Political Treatise/A Political Treatise
- By: Baruch Spinoza
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Though it first aroused anger and controversy rather than admiration and acceptance, A Theologico-Political Treatise was a landmark in the analysis of theology (with particular reference to the Bible and its Jewish and Christian interpretations) and its relationship to philosophy and politics. Spinoza’s scholarly analysis, based on careful study, demonstrated that the Bible was composed by many writers over the centuries - and that even the Pentateuch, the first five books, were not the work of Moses, as was generally assumed at the time.
-
The Forge of Christendom
- The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: James A. Gillies
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 88
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. They saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but to begin the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on Earth. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age, a time of caliphs and Viking sea kings, the spread of castles, and the invention of knighthood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fantastic medieval history
- By Lyle on 08-22-18
-
Metaphysics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 20
Aristotle's Metaphysics was the first major study of the subject of metaphysics - in other words, an inquiry into 'first philosophy', or 'wisdom'. It differs from Physics which is concerned with the natural world: things which are subject to the laws of nature, things that move and change, are measurable. In Metaphysics, the study falls on 'being qua being' - being insofar as it is being; the causes and principles of being, the causes and principles of substances.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very challenging indeed ...
- By mohadcheridi on 01-20-18
-
Capital: Volume 2
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Following Marx’s death in 1883, Engels was able to step into the breach and, drawing on Marx’s extensive notes and writings, complete volume 2 of Capital, leading to its publication in 1885. Here, Marx turns his attention to the money owner, the money lender, the wholesale merchant, the trader and the entrepreneur or 'functioning capitalist.'
-
The Satyricon
- By: Petronius
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from ancient Rome. It tells the ribald story of Encolpius, a man of active and varied appetites (powered notably by his passion for his favourite lover, the handsome Giton), who plunges without inhibition into the life of Roman pleasures: orgies of food, feasting, abundant sex and escapades. The kind of hedonism found occasionally in Roman mosaics is here brought to life.
-
The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period, Volume 3
- The Republic
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowlett - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 7
The Republic is perhaps the single most important, the most studied and the most quoted text of all of Plato's Socratic Dialogues. Through the medium of Socrates, Plato outlines his view and ideas concerning the ideal working of the city-state. Socrates narrates a conversation that took place the previous day with Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and others. The dialogue is organised into 10 books and covers a broad range of topics, including the ideal community and the ideal rulers of the community.
-
The Enneads Volume 1 (1-3)
- By: Plotinus, Stephen McKenna - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Plotinus (204/5 -270 CE), born in Lycopolis, Egypt, when it was part of the Roman Empire, was a major figure in the philosophical school later called Neoplatonism. Neoplatonists viewed reality as deriving from a single force or figure expressed as 'the One'. Two further concepts from Plotinus, 'the Intellect' and 'the Soul', are also principal features of his philosophy. These proposals led to the work of Plotinus forming a bridge between Plato and the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as well as Gnosticism.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Exemplar for Spirituality
- By Gary on 02-10-18
-
The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 1
- Symposium, Theaetetus, Phaedo
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translation
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Hugh Ross, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes (the playwright) and Agathon (a prize-winning tragic poet), presents his particular view in a short discourse.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
not theaetetus
- By Joshua on 01-16-18
Publisher's Summary
The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period.
Procopius, the leading official historian of his time, lived during the testing and indulgent time of Emperor Justinian the Great and wrote the official records of the successful wars and the grand building projects of his ruler. These were words of aggrandisement. But covertly, Procopius kept a very different record: The Secret History, a vivid, salacious and detailed account of the outrageous behaviour of Justinian and his wife, Theodora, and the equally corrupt, licentious and cruel members of the court and administration of the time.
Secrecy was a necessary precaution for Procopius to prevent a painful and untimely death, for Justinian emerges as a grasping, ruthless and unprincipled ruler who would do anything to increase his wealth and power and who would not brook opposition on any level. No-one was safe around him - he was on a par with the worst Emperors of Rome such as Caligula. Theodora was no better - Procopius portrays her as a vulgar woman of insatiable sexual appetite given to scandalous displays and equally ready to kill to satisfy her desires. Not even Belisarius, the outstanding general of the time, was free from criticism: he is shown to be in thrall to his wife, Antonina, also a woman of wild habits, keen to pursue any person or object which appealed to her without let or hindrance.
This was a time, Procopius shows, when no-one in the great capital of Constantinople was safe, a time when the rule of law could be subsumed at any time according to the whim of those in power. James Cameron Stewart reads the unabridged anonymous translation published in 1896 by The Athenian Society.
More from the same
What members say
Average Customer Ratings
Overall
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars6
-
4 Stars2
-
3 Stars2
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0
Performance
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars6
-
4 Stars1
-
3 Stars1
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0
Story
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars6
-
4 Stars2
-
3 Stars2
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0