The Aeneid of Virgil (The Great Courses)
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.22
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of liter…
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1. The Vikings
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.09
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Parts one,two, and three. Each part contains six audio cassettes and course guidebook in a clamshel… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
2. St. Augustine's Confessions (Great Courses, #6627)
By: William R. Cook , Ronald B. Herzman
3.58
Format: 24 pages,
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
3. Machiavelli in Context (The Great Courses #4311)
By: William R. Cook
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
24 30 minute lectures 1 Who Is Machiavelli? Why Does He Matter? 2 Machiavelli's Florence 3 Classica… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
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- audiobook
4. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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- literature
- classics
- mythology
"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
5. The Art of War (The Great Courses, #9456)
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Audiobook
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a landmark achievement in the evolution of strategic thought. So univer… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
- audiobook
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- nonfiction
- roman
- history
- audiobook
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8. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)
By: Benedicta Ward , Anthony of Sourozh
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer asce… read more
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9. Books that matter: the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire
By: Leo Damrosch
3.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Professor Damrosch i… read more
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10. The Early Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more
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11. The Story Of Medieval England from King Arthur To The Tudor Conquest (Great Courses, #8410)
By: Jennifer Paxton
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Audio CD
The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of… read more
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12. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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13. 1066: The Year That Changed Everything
By: Jennifer Paxton
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Audio CD
If you were to look back at hundreds of years of history in search of the one critical moment after… read more
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14. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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15. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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16. Great World Religions: Judaism The Teaching Company
By: Isaiah M. Gafni
3.00
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
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17. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.17
Format: 18 pages, Audio CD
Audio CDs in three cases (parts 1, 2, and 3), accompanied by a "like new" course booklet. 36 lectur… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended in 1763. The last of those tortoises died in 2004 at the age of 255."-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
"Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott."-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
"If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what i…"-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
19. The World of Byzantium
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.05
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Byzantium is too-often considered merely the "Eastern rump" of the old Roman Empire, a curious and … read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
21. How the Medici shaped the Renaissance
By: William Landon
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. The Aeneid of Virgil (The Great Courses)
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.22
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of liter… read more
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- italy
- audiobook
- roman
- classics
- history
- literature
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- mythology
- literary criticism
23. Charlemagne Father of Europe
By: Philip Daileader
3.76
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In Charlemagne: Father of Europe, you will look back on Charlemagne’s rule and the way his dynasty … read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. An Introduction to Infectious Diseases
By: Barry C. Fox
3.94
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length 12 hours and 40 minutes Infectious diseases touch the lives of everyone on the p… read more
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25. Dante's Divine Comedy
By: William R. Cook
4.33
Format: None pages, Audio CD
12 Audio CDs with Course Outline Booklet read more
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- mythology
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26. War, Peace, And Power: Diplomatic History Of Europe, 1500 - 2000
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.07
Format: 18 pages, Audio CD
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 8820 read more
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- history
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27. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
By: Michael Sugrue
4.21
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his sea… read more
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28. The Celtic World
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.09
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what w… read more
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- history
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29. Plato's Republic
By: David Roochnik
4.23
Format: None pages, Nook
More than 2,000 years later, Plato's Republic remains astonishingly relevant to our everyday lives.… read more
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30. A History of British India
By: Hayden J. Bellenoit
3.98
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 11 mins No era is more pertinent to understanding how present-day India, Pakistan, and … read more
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31. Notorious London: A City Tour
By: Paul Deslandes
3.22
Format: None pages, Audiobook
ondon began as a Roman outpost more than 2,000 years ago. Since then, it has become one of the most… read more
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