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    Several Orations Of Demosthenes
    Several Orations Of Demosthenes ab 32.49 € als Taschenbuch: To Encourage The Athenians To Oppose The Exorbitant Power Of Philip Of Macedon (1702). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    The Battle of Salamis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    The names of history's most famous battles still ring in our ears today, their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world's most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga, won by one of the colonists' most renowned war heroes before he became his nation's most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans' success in England and changed the course of British history. Waterloo, which marked the reshaping of the European continent and Napoleon's doom, has now become part of the English lexicon. In Charles River Editors' Greatest Battles in History series, listeners can get caught up to speed on history's greatest battles in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the Spartans' famous and sacrificial stand at the Battle of Thermopylae ended during the Second Persian War, the Athenian fleet was forced to fall back, and Xerxes' massive Persian army marched unopposed into Greece before advancing on Athens. The Greek armies were scattered and unable to face the might of Persia, so Athens was forced to do the unthinkable: evacuate the entire population of the city to Salamis, from where the Athenians watched in horror as Xerxes' troops plundered the defenseless city, set it aflame, and razed the Acropolis. However, the Athenians remained belligerent, in part because according to the oracle at Delphi, "only the wooden wall shall save you". Indeed, this would prove true when Themistocles managed to lure the Persian fleet into the straits of Salamis. There, on a warm day in September 480 BCE, hundreds of Greek and Persian ships faced each other in a narrow strait between the Attic peninsula of Greece and the island of Salamis. The battle that ensued would prove to be epic on a number of different levels, as it set a precedent for how later naval battles were fought in the ancient Mediterranean, turned the ti ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079872/bk_acx0_079872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, and Girard : Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min
    When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public's blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as René Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato's Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos figure, the human drug through whom Plato can dispense his philosophical remedies. With tremendous insight and satisfying complexity, this audiobook analyzes classical texts through the lens of Girard's mimetic mechanism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Neufeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140613/bk_acx0_140613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Orations Of Demosthenes
    Orations Of Demosthenes ab 37.49 € als Taschenbuch: Pronounced To Excite The Athenians Against Philip King Of Macedon And On Occasions Of Public Deliberation (1900). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Alexander the Great: Who Was Alexander the Great and His Legacy from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals.The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory over the Thebans and Athenians at the Battle of Chaeronea - all when he was still just a teenager. By the time of his death at age 32, he had amassed an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River and included all of Persia and most of Egypt.His victories won him many supporters, but they also earned him enemies. This easy-to-listen-to biography offers a fascinating look at the life of Alexander and the world in which he lived.Alexander's influence on cultural and political history and the scope of his military prowess remains awe-inspiring to this day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Becky White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124619/bk_acx0_124619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Attic Theatre
    The Attic Theatre ab 34.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Description Of The Stage And Theatre Of The Athenians And Of The Dramatic Performances At Athens. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Modern Scholar: The Dawn of Political History: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian Wars, Hörbuch, Digital, 296min
    In this fascinating course of lectures, Professor Fred Baumann leads us on an engaging exploration of this penetrating work. Taking in each of the eight books, we examine the complex juxtaposition of events Thucydides demonstrates  without much comment of his own. We see how democrats and oligarchs, Athenians and Spartans, understand the world and misunderstand each other. We explore how Thucydides contrasts Sparta - so deliberately narrow, provincial, overtly moral, and covertly cynical - with Athens - cosmopolitan, sophisticated, overtly cynical and covertly moral.  In doing so, we discover his admonishment to respect both and to get past our own instinctive, and sometimes destructive, human tendencies.  In the end, we come to understand how Thucydide's work shows human nature in the most extreme circumstances and thus provides deep insight into both political practice and philosophy. That may indeed be the reason for its lasting relevance: its unique ability to still shed light upon our own predicament some two-thousand years later. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Baumann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005860/bk_reco_005860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one. The guiding principle of this book's heretical approach is that "history is not everything that happened but what is worth remembering about the past". Thus its chapters deal mainly with "Memorable History" in blocks of time over the centuries. The final chapter, "The Royal Soap Opera", recounts the achievements, personalities, and idiocies of the royal family since the arrival of William the Conqueror in 1066. English History will be a welcome and amusing tour of a land that has always fascinated Anglophiles and Anglophobes alike.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029429/bk_adbl_029429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min
    The Republic (Greek: "Politeia"; Latin: "Res Publica") is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσ?νη), the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. In the book's dialogue, Socrates discusses the meaning of justice and whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man with various Athenians and foreigners. They consider the natures of existing regimes and then propose a series of different, hypothetical cities in comparison. This culminates in the discussion of Kallipolis, a hypothetical city-state ruled by a philosopher-king. They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and that of poetry in society. The dialogues may have taken place during the Peloponnesian War. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Neufeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111542/bk_acx0_111542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death on Delos: An Athenian Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 578min
    Greece, 545 BC: It is illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos. It's also illegal to give birth there. Yet when murder is committed, the only available detective to solve the crime is the priestess Diotima, and she is heavily pregnant. Delos is the holy birthplace of the divine twins Apollo and Artemis, and it is an island in crisis. Not only has murder tainted the holy sanctuary, but there are about a thousand Athenian troops on the island. The army is led by the statesman Pericles and has come to take away the treasury of the Delian League, the defense fund of the Greeks against the Persian Empire. The holy people are in uproar. The Athenians are exasperated. The High Priest of the Delian Apollo is not amused. To cap it off, Diotima's husband and fellow detective, Nicolaos, is implicated in dodgy dealings that link him to the murder. Somehow Diotima must find the killer, calm the island, and - oh, yes - have a baby. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010152/bk_reco_010152_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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