Antiquity

Greek Athletics

by Frederick Adam Wright Read by Heather Eney 4.3
The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts fro…

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 Lost Island of Atlantis

by Edward Taylor Fletcher Read by Rapunzelina 4.1
In this paper, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Fletcher demonstrates methodically what he perceives as evidence for…

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 Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 5
The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythologica…

Ruins and Old Trees

by Mary Roberts Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Ruins and Old Trees, Associated with Memorable Events in English History is a book that delves into the history of the United Kingdom by lo…

Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome

by William Henry Samuel Jones Read by Leon Harvey 5
This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…

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…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Adonis Attis Osiris.

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 4.9
The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme…

The Idea of Progress

by John Bagnell Bury Read by Barry Ganong 5
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

Israel under Samuel, Saul, and David, to the Birth of Solomon

by Alfred Edersheim Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The history of Israel, viewed as the Theocracy, or Kingdom of God, consists of three periods : First, that under the guidance of Prophets (f…

History of the Britons

by Nennius Read by BUAES 3.9
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …

The Exodus and the Wanderings in the Wilderness

by Alfred Edersheim Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The period covered by the central books of the Pentateuch is, in many respects, the most important in Old Testament history, not only so far…

The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla

by A. H. Beesly Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…

Stories of the Wars of the Jews

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Cliff Stone 5
Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…

The Empresses of Rome

by Joseph Martin Mccabe and Joseph Martin McCabe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deed…

Octavius

by Marcus Minucius Felix Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…

Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé

by Foster Barham Zincke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea t…

Sulla the Fortunate

by George Philip Baker Read by Mark Harrington 4.4
George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of …

The History of the Church of Christ

by Joseph Milner Read by InTheDesert 4.5
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…

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