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Free Download Nick Holmes, Nigel Patterson (Narrator), "The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome"
English | ASIN: B0D48459T4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:10:00 | 169 MB
describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome. Out of this ordeal came new leaders, new government, new armies, and a new vision of what it was to be Roman. Best remembered today is the rapid rise of Christianity in this period, as Rome’s pagan gods were rejected, and the emperor Constantine converted to this new religion. Less well remembered is the plethora of other changes that conspired to provide an environment well suited to a religious revolution.

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Free Download Jennifer T. Roberts, Petrea Burchard (Narrator), "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture"
English | ASIN: B0D154JXPM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:52:00 | 381 MB
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.
Examining the importance to the Greeks of religion, mythology, the Homeric epics, tragic and comic drama, philosophy, and the city-state, the book offers shifting perspectives on an extraordinary and astonishingly creative people. Century after century, in one medium after another, the Greeks addressed big questions, many of which are still very much with us. Yet, for all their virtues, Greek men set themselves apart from women and foreigners and profited from the unpaid labor of enslaved workers, and the book also looks at the mixed legacy of the ancient Greeks today.
The result is a rich, wide-ranging, and compelling history of a fascinating and profoundly influential culture in all its complexity-and the myriad ways, good and bad, it continues to shape us today.

Free Download Ovid, Michael Fontaine – translator, BJ Harrison (Narrator), "How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)"
English | ASIN: B0D4MLL7N3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~01:46:00 | 49 MB
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse’s death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love, he then wrote Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris), which presents thirty-eight frank and witty strategies for coping with unrequited love, falling out of love, ending a relationship, and healing a broken heart. How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid’s lighthearted and provocative work, complete with a lively introduction.
Ovid’s advice-which he illustrates with ingenious interpretations of classical mythology-ranges from the practical, psychologically astute, and profound to the ironic, deliberately offensive, and bizarre. Some advice is conventional-such as staying busy, not spending time alone, and avoiding places associated with an ex. Some is off-color, such as having sex until you’re sick of it. And so

Free Download Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2XKZJ9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
From the bestselling author comes the story of our wedding vows-what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it’s a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there’s a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and a thoughtful meditation on marriage itself.

Free Download The Silk Road: An Enthralling Overview of the Ancient Trade Routes That Connected China to Europe (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882372483 | 2024 | 3 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Billy Wellman, Enthralling History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
Journey on the Silk Road, and discover trade, cultures, and adventures from the ancient world! Step onto the fabled Silk Road, an epic network of ancient trade routes that spanned thousands of miles and linked the East and West for centuries. In The Silk Road, embark on a captivating voyage through time and terrain, where cultures converged, goods flowed, and history unfolded. This audiobook delves into the fascinating world of the Silk Road. Learn how spices, silk, precious gems, and ideas traversed vast deserts, towering mountain passes, and bustling bazaars. Discover the secrets of this remarkable historical crossroads where empires rose and fell and where the exchange of knowledge, art, and technology changed the course of civilizations.

Free Download Mary Beard, Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator), "Laughter in Ancient Rome: on Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up"
English | ASIN: B0D1ZJ8HXR | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:08:00 | 306 MB
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans’ jokes?

Free Download Enemies at the Gate: The City Walls of Ancient Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1ZG5FSZ | 2024 | 16 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 482 MB
Author: Patricia Southern
Narrator: Rupert Bush
The legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753BC accords very well with the earliest defensive walls on the Palatine Hill, made of clay and timber and showing evidence of animal sacrifices. To trace the continual efforts to fortify Rome is to trace the rise and fall of the Roman Empire – through the taking of the city by the Gauls in 390/387, the wars with the Italian states, the threat of Hannibal, the establishment of the Republic, attacks by the northern tribes and eventual division and collapse. By the 6th century AD, General Belisarius was desperately shoring up the walls with marble slabs from altars and gravestones.

Free Download This Ancient Heart: Landscape, Ancestor, Self edited by Paul Davies, Caitlín Matthews
English | October 30, 2015 | ISBN: 1782799672 | True EPUB | 207 pages | 1.9 MB
13 authors explore the threefold relationship between the landscape, the ancestors and ourselves. By focussing upon the essentials that shape Pagan and Heathen identity, this book reveals the connective pathways where beliefs, actions and metaphors lead to dynamic, practical and spiritual lives.

Free Download Mara Paz Lpez Martnez, "The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel "
English | ISBN: 9027214336 | 2023 | 446 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twenty-six contributions in this volume have been divided into thematic blocks, based on the different approaches that the authors have adopted to tackle the subject. The first block is about realia – the reality in which the fiction has been conceived. The second block focuses on the legal problems that can be deduced from the Descriptions of the novels. The third block encompasses deals with the Greek and Roman novel from the point of view of classical philology, literary criticism and literary theory, with chapters dedicated to the tradition of the ancient novel, both in our most immediate cultural area (Middle Ages, Spanish Golden Age) and in other contexts, whether Indo-European (India, Persia) or of a different origin.

Free Download Evelyn C. Rysdyk, "The Norse Shaman: Ancient Spiritual Practices of the Northern Tradition"
English | 2016 | pages: 218| ISBN: 162055593X, ASIN: B01CO33APW | EPUB | 4,4 mb
An experiential guide to the wisdom preserved in Europe’s Far North.