Audio only
Length4h 34m
About this audiobook
Before Alexander, there was the kingdom that made him. Before the empire, there was the struggle for survival.
In The Rise of Macedon, the first volume of a sweeping three-book history of the Macedonian Empire, readers are transported to a world of mountain strongholds, silver mines, and warrior kings. This is not the story of Alexander the Great—not yet. It is the story of the land and the dynasty that produced him.
The book traces the astonishing transformation of Macedon from a fragmented, overlooked backwater into the most formidable military power in the Greek world. At the heart of this narrative is the Argead Dynasty—a blood-soaked line of kings who claimed descent from Heracles and ruled through a volatile mix of assassination, ambition, and genius.
Readers will witness the survivalist cunning of Perdiccas II during the Peloponnesian War, the cultural revolution of Archelaus I who invited Euripides to his court, and the near-collapse of the kingdom during the Decades of Instability when Illyrian invaders and civil war brought Macedon to its knees. Then comes Philip II—the young hostage of Thebes who returned to a shattered kingdom and, through military innovation, economic reform, and ruthless diplomacy, forged the army that would conquer Greece at the Battle of Chaeronea.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 34 mins
Narrated bySantiago Machain
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11-intro
8C7
2C1
9C8
3C2
10C9
4C3
11C10
5C4
12C11
Show all chaptersShow less
6C5
13C12
7C6
14The-End
Series
Expansión y EstancamientoSantiago Machain10h 23m$28 · $0.00
Scotland, Independence, and the Medieval British IslesSantiago Machain5h 11m$21 · $0.00
The Stuart Kings and the Road to Civil WarSantiago Machain5h 3m$21 · $0.00
René DescartesSantiago Machain5h 37m$21 · $0.00
Pirates of the Medieval WorldSantiago Machain5h 9m$25 · $0.00
Europe at WarSantiago Machain7h 4m$25 · $0.00
Benjamin FranklinSantiago Machain5h 16m$19 · $0.00
Süleyman der PrächtigeSantiago Machain5h 12m$19 · $0.00
Los Límites OtomanosSantiago Machain10h 25m$25 · $0.00
Liderazgo en RemotoSantiago Machain1h 48m$12 · $0.00
The North Atlantic WorldSantiago Machain6h 29m$25 · $0.00
Marie CurieSantiago Machain7h 18m$25 · $0.00
The Visigothic KingdomSantiago Machain4h 8m$19 · $0.00
Rosa ParksSantiago Machain5h 38m$21 · $0.00
1914Santiago Machain6h 19m$19 · $0.00
El Islam y la era de CarlomagnoSantiago Machain6h 45m$21 · $0.00
Imperio BizantinoSantiago Machain7h 49m$21 · $0.00
John F. KennedySantiago Machain6h 35m$22 · $0.00
El Velo del MisterioSantiago Machain7h 45m$19 · $0.00
The Bourbons, The Napoleonic Crisis & The Loss of EmpireSantiago Machain5h 45m$21 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m$20 · $0.00
Frederick Douglass: All 3 Memoirs in One VolumeFrederick Douglass44h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 10m$2 · $0.00
I've Been to the MountaintopMartin Luther King48m5 (1)$11 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m$29 · $0.00
Saving My EnemyBob Welch9h 11m$20
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m$33 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
EnduranceAlfred Lansing6h 1m$20
LES MISERABLES (Illustrated Edition)Victor Hugo66h 17m$1 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m$29 · $0.00
You may also like
The Life and Times of Alfred the GreatCharles Plummer6h 53m$1 · $0.00
William the ConquerorEdward A. Freeman5h 33m$2 · $0.00
The life of the samurai in JapanKidsChoice54m$12 · $0.00
Memoirs of the Dukes of UrbinoJames Dennistoun54h 24m$1 · $0.00
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)James Dennistoun54h 30m$2 · $0.00
History of the Wars: The Gothic WarProcopius9h 13m$1 · $0.00
FoundationPeter Ackroyd18h 20m$25
History of the English People, Vol. 1John Richard Green9h 14m$2.30
The Life and Times of Alfred the GreatCharles Plummer6h 53m$2 · $0.00
The History of Moors in Spain (Annotated)Stanley Lane-Poole7h 47m$2 · $0.00
Vahram's chronicle of the Armenian kingdom in Cilicia, during the time of the CrusadesVahram1h 58m$1 · $0.00
Asser's Life of King AlfredJohn Asser3h 34m$1 · $0.00
Elizabeth IAbigail Archer3h 41m$15
India Through the AgesFlora Annie Webster Steel14h 51m$2 · $0.00
The History of Sassanian "New Persian" EmpireGeorge Rawlinson17h 19m$2 · $0.00
RENAISSANCE STATE THE UNWRITTEN STORY OF THE MAKING OF MAHARASHTRAGirish Kuber9h 35m$12
History of Friedrich II. of PrussiaThomas Carlyle2h 21m$2 · $0.00
Dara ShukohAvik Chanda11h 4m$29 · $0.00
PARTHIA (Illustrated)George Rawlinson11h 50m$2 · $0.00
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of GermanyMary Platt Parmele1h 46m$2 · $0.00