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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
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- D. N. Frew
- 24-08-18
a very impressive tour of ancient civilizations.
Covers the earliest civilizations which had written records: flitting between mesopotamia, China and the early Mediterranean kingdoms, roughly in parallel timeframes.
if you get the audio book, you'll find it really helpful to download and review the PDF maps before you listen to each chapter.
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- focus1234
- 08-07-20
Absolutely great work of literature
I loved it from the beginning to the end, the history of ancient times has always been interesting to me, but this book adds another new dimension to it. it reads more like a fiction than history and takes you all the way through every great (and not) king, emperor, empire and war that existed in the ancient times. It also doesn't discriminate geographically, and provides an outstanding journey through the stories of ancient Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia and any other civilisation which stories survived to be told in the modern era
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- Alexandra R.
- 15-12-23
A fantastic explanation of ancient times!
A truly amazing book. Such an incredible amount of research to bring out such an array of information!
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- Kdl
- 01-02-15
Fascinating insight
An excellent book. I listen to it over and over again. We live in a complicated world yet the seeds were sown thousands of years ago. This book explains how great empires were born and evolved and eventually began to fall apart. Fully recommend it.
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- M. Griffiths
- 23-01-16
Ancient history litany
I think that confining the scope to Europe and the Middle East would have made this more interesting to me. I tried but the sections on India and China tended to pass me by because I had no pre-existing knowledge.
Occasional humour and the very extensive supplementary material added an extra star.
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- david mccullagh
- 07-04-15
very interesting
I thought this was a well thought out narrative that was well performed - very interesting.
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- A buyer
- 11-01-21
Interesting but not what I anticipated
I love old history but for some reason I struggled to connect with the narrator. I enjoyed the details but maybe it's me but I just found the delivery 'rushed' and bland.
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- Tim Lyons
- 17-07-18
Well read, but could do with a second narrator.
John Lee does a great job of reading this history, however, it would give it more depth if all the extracts from other sources were read by someone else.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-05-23
So much information.
A lot of births and deaths to try and keep up with but very informative.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-02-18
interesting not riveting
narrator excellent but author relies too much on Suetonius who was great Roman gossip but certainly not a historian
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