History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books
Twenty-Four Classical Histories of War, Empire, Liberty, and the Ancient MediterraneanBy Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Polybius, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Strabo, Flavius Josephus, John Bagnell Bury, Theodor Mommsen, Edward Gibbon
Length857h 27m
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Spanning archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire and its modern interpretation, History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books gathers historiography, memoir, biography, geography, and political analysis into a capacious record of Mediterranean antiquity. Military narrative, constitutional inquiry, ethnographic observation, imperial chronicle, and moral portraiture coexist, allowing landmark accounts of the Persian Wars, Peloponnesian conflict, Roman expansion, and imperial decline to speak across centuries. The collection's range foregrounds both the grandeur of public events and the contingencies of power, character, religion, and place. Its contributors represent Greek and Roman historical writing at its most influential, from eyewitness participants and imperial administrators to biographers and geographers attentive to the peoples beyond Rome's borders. Their divergent social positions, political commitments, and literary methods illuminate the development of classical historiography: civic inquiry, pragmatic analysis, republican moralism, imperial critique, and universal history. The inclusion of major modern historians extends this dialogue, demonstrating how antiquity was received, systematized, and contested within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad, comparative entrance into the ancient world. It offers an exceptional opportunity to trace recurring questions of war, governance, citizenship, empire, and historical causation through multiple voices and genres. Students and general readers alike will find in its breadth a rich educational resource and a sustained conversation about how history is written, remembered, and used.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length857 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1New History (Annotated)
26BOOK III
2History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books
27BOOK IV
3The Histories
28BOOK V
4Preface
29BOOK VI
5The History of the Peloponnesian War
30BOOK VII
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6The First Book. (pt. 1)
31The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great
7The First Book. (pt. 2)
32PREFACE.
8The First Book. (pt. 3)
33ARRIAN'S PREFACE.
9The First Book. (pt. 4)
34BOOK II.
10The First Book. (pt. 5)
35BOOK III.
11The First Book. (pt. 6)
36BOOK IV.
12The First Book. (pt. 7)
37BOOK V.
13The First Book. (pt. 8)
38BOOK VI.
14The First Book. (pt. 9)
39BOOK VII. (pt. 1)
15Hellenica: The History of the Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath
40BOOK VII. (pt. 2)
16BOOK I
41BOOK VII. (pt. 3)
17BOOK II
42The History of Rome
18BOOK III
43The History of Rome Vol. 1
19BOOK IV
44Book I (pt. 1)
20BOOK V
45Book I (pt. 2)
21BOOK VI
46Book II (pt. 1)
22BOOK VII
47Book II (pt. 2)
23Anabasis: The March of the Ten Thousand
48Book III (pt. 1)
24BOOK I
49Book III (pt. 2)
25BOOK II
50Book IV (pt. 1)
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