Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling by Nijay K. Gupta

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733670 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733670] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present Author: Oswyn Murray Narrator: Justin Avoth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 13, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and warfare. It aims to offer a new history of Greek historiography from the Enlightenment to the present, and to acknowledge the continuing spiritual importance of the ancient Greeks for European culture in the twentieth century under totalitarian persecutions. Through the study of different historians, many of them unjustly forgotten, it shows the problematic nature of the Anglo-Saxon tradition and the importance of ideas from the continent of Europe, the ambiguities of democracy, and the impossibility of understanding the past or the present outside our common European heritage. It ends by offering suggestions for the future of the study of the Greeks in the context of world history. ©2024 Oswyn Murray (P)2024 Penguin Audio

The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times by Ross King

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738477 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738477] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times Author: Ross King Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 26, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy. The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Italian influence—and easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from a strong, stable peninsula, sure of its place in the world. In this breakneck history, bestselling author Ross King dismantles this assumption, uncovering the story of a land rife with inner uncertainty even as its influence spread. As the Italian tale unfolds, prosperity and power fluctuate like the elevation in the Dolomites. If Rome's seven hills could talk, they might speak of the glorious time of Trajan—or bemoan the era of conquest and the Bubonic Plague that decimated Rome's population. Episodes of wealth like the First Triumvirate and the time of the Medicis are given fresh life alongside descriptions the Middle Ages, the early days of Venice, the invasion of Napoleon, and the long struggle for unification. King paints a colorful, fascinating portrait of a country that remains compelling not just to tens of millions of Italian Americans, but to the millions of Americans who visit Italy every year.

Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling by Nijay K. Gupta

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728517 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728517] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling Author: Nijay K. Gupta Narrator: Nijay K. Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions of the ancient world. Award-winning author, blogger, speaker, and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context in this accessible and engaging book. Christianity would have been seen as radical in the Roman world, but some found this new religion attractive and compelling. The first Christians dared to be different, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, transformed how people thought about religion, and started a movement that grew like wildfire. This book shows how the example of the earliest Christians can offer today's believers encouragement and hope.

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap by Frank L. Holt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738509 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738509] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap Author: Frank L. Holt Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured. Frank Holt makes use of a robust combination of scientific tools and archival research to tell the story of Ankh-Hap's life, death, and his mummified remains, which ended up in the back of an American college classroom. A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits takes the listener into a forgotten world of mummy trafficking by an American entrepreneur named Henry Augustus Ward. His company's shelves were stocked with mummies, coffins, and even ancient body parts. Customers could piece together their own 'Frankenmummy' with authentic wrappings and amulets. A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits contextualizes this information by surveying the history of similar mummies from antiquity to the twentieth century, moving from ancient tomb robbers and medieval apothecaries to modern dime museums, traveling shows, pulp fiction, films, and pop culture. The book offers listeners a glimpse inside a dark chapter of mummy history.

[German] - Art Blakey: Kurzbiografie kompakt: 5 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen! by Ralf Erkel, 5 Minuten Biografien, 5 Minuten

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738614 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738614] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Art Blakey: Kurzbiografie kompakt: 5 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen! Author: Ralf Erkel, 5 Minuten Biografien, 5 Minuten Narrator: Ralf Erkel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 10, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Art Blakey, Schlagzeuger und Jazz-Legende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!