Antiquity

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

by E. A. Wallis Budge Read by Kazbek 4.6
A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century …

A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…

by John Bagnell Bury Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius offers a comprehensive exploration of the Roman Empire's e…

Laws

by Plato Read by Jim Locke 4
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…

The World’s Famous Orations

by William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, Various,William Jennings Bryan and Various, William Jennings Bryan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations …

Hellenic History

by George Willis Botsford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
"The purpose of this volume is to present in brief scope the evolution of Greek civilization a culture simple in its essential unity, a…

Egyptian Tales

by William Matthew Flinders Petrie Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.6
Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson

The History of Britain

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 3.7
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…

Roman History

by William Wolfe Capes Read by Pamela Nagami 3.4
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Theodoric the Goth

by Thomas Hodgkin Read by Patrick Eaton 4.4
Theodoric the Great (~454-526) was king of the Ostrogoths during the time of the terminal decline of the Western Roman Empire. After wanderi…

The History of Rome

by Titus Livius Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Xerxes

by Jacob Abbott Read by Deon Gines 4.5
This history covers the years of Xerxes' years as ruler of the Persian empire and invasion of Greece. - Summary by Deon Gines

The World's Famous Orations

by Various,William Jennings Bryan and Various, William Jennings Bryan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Franci…

1001 Questions and Answers on General History

by Benjamin Hathaway Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions,…

Ancient Achievements

by John Lord Read by KHand 4
The third book in the Beacon Lights of History series, Lord discusses achievements such as the formation of laws, the development of the fin…

Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction

by Wilhelm Ihne Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
In this short scholarly work the German historian, Wilhelm Ihne, elucidates what is known or can be deduced about Rome's early history, from…

The Roman Empire of the Second Century

by William Wolfe Capes Read by Pamela Nagami 4.7
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignori…

The Jesus of History

by Terrot R. Glover Read by Paul Mazumdar 3.8
A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing wh…

Beacon Lights of History

by John Lord Read by KHand 4.4
Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as import…

The Pilgrimage Of Etheria

by Etheria Read by David Wales 4.5
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…

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