Ancient

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heroes, written and read by Stephen Fry. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes....

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves....

An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....

The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....

Is the Greek alphabet all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens?....

Go beyond the myth and learn about the man who changed the face of the ancient world and laid the foundation for the great traditions of the Roman Empire....

A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served....

This book begins with King Solomon's reign and ends just before Jesus' birth, but don't expect to hear an historical record as in a textbook....

Even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious....

Give your imagination a real treat. This Mythology: Mega Collection of eight audiobooks with more than 30 hours of listening time is for you. Discover how many wives Zeus had, how Thor got his hammer, who Loki's children are, and more....

Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus....

These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance....

For years, The Great Courses has taken lifelong learners on stirring explorations of our ancient roots; ones that bring you face to face with what history means....

The god Odin cuts a dramatic figure in Norse mythology and is still a part of the popular imagination....

The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around 5,000 years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed - these were the first city-builders and the first people to use wheeled vehicles....

100,000 years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one - homo sapiens. What happened to the others?....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....

In the pantheon of ancient men of letters, none hold a more venerated position than the Roman historian, Tacitus....

For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history....

Throughout the lectures, you'll study Judaism as it was understood by its adherents in the past and by those who practice or identify with Judaism today....

Explore the dramatic interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and paganism in Rome from the 1st to the 6th centuries....

These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....

Twenty-four captivating lectures from The Roman Empire: From Augustus to the Fall of Rome traces the breathtaking history from the empire’s foundation by Augustus to its Golden Age in the 2nd century CE through a series of ever-worsening crises until its ultimate disintegration....