The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower by Nick Holmes

The Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women by Joan Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756049 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756049] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women Author: Joan Smith Narrator: Joan Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: 'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern… a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women – dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny of the police to public attention. Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Fewer than half a dozen of them can be said with any confidence to have died of natural causes. These were the wives, mothers and daughters of the emperors from Augustus to Nero, via their ‘mad’ relative Caligula. They were the most privileged women of their time, but their lives were overshadowed, dominated and controlled by these men. Raped, killed, ripped apart from their children and mostly airbrushed from history, Joan Smith brings their extraordinary and tragic stories back into focus. There are no nymphomaniacs here. Instead, the book pieces together the human stories, showing how they struggled for control of their lives at a time when both the law and culture were stacked against them. These women shared in a spirited, inspiring and sometimes reckless resistance to male authority. Smith brings to this history not only a fresh interpretation of the original texts but also an understanding of what we know now about the mechanics of domestic abuse. The way these women have been misrepresented for two thousand years speaks volumes not just about ancient misogyny but the origin and persistence of attitudes that continue to blight women’s lives today.

The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower by Nick Holmes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753804 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753804] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower Series: #2 of Fall of the Roman Empire Author: Nick Holmes Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: A skilled storyteller, Holmes presents a riveting account of the wars, intrigues and personalities that contributed to Rome's decline, with entire chapters devoted to single battles.' Kirkus Reviews Why did Rome Fall? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster. A catastrophic megadrought on the Asian steppes in the fourth century AD forced the migration of entire peoples—Huns, Goths, Vandals, and others—west into the Roman Empire. They met an empire weakened from war with Persia. Rome's misfortunes multiplied as it made tactical errors on the battlefield. Civil war, religious unrest, and political incompetence compounded a worsening situation. The result was one of the greatest disasters in the ancient world—the sack of Rome by the Goths in AD 410.

The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome by Nick Holmes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753803 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753803] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome Series: #1 of Fall of the Roman Empire Author: Nick Holmes Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution 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. Drawing on the latest research, Nick Holmes looks for new answers to old questions. He charts the rise of the Roman Republic and the classical Roman Empire, examining the roles played by sheer good luck and the benign climate. Focusing on the reigns of the critically important but under-researched emperors in the third century, such as Aurelian, Diocletian, and Constantine, he vividly brings to life how Rome just escaped catastrophe in the third century, and embarked on a journey that would take it into a brave new world—one which provided the foundations for modern Europe and America.

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture by Jennifer T. Roberts

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751934 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751934] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture Author: Jennifer T. Roberts Narrator: Petrea Burchard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: 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.

[German] - Kaiser Wilhelm II.: Kurzbiografie kompakt: 5 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen! by 5 Minuten Biografien, 5 Minuten, Jürgen Fritsche

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764393 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764393] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kaiser Wilhelm II.: Kurzbiografie kompakt: 5 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen! Author: 5 Minuten Biografien, 5 Minuten, Jürgen Fritsche Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 6, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Kaiser Wilhelm II., dritter und letzter Kaiser des Deutschen Reichs von 1871: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!