Ancient History
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, TheWritten By : Edward GibbonNarrated By : Neville JasonPublished By : Select Music & DistributionDuration : 7 hours 55 minutesCategories : Classic Literature
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First Three Minutes, TheWritten By : Steven WeinbergNarrated By : Raymond ToddPublished By : Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 5 hoursCategories : AncientDownload Price : $29.95 $13.49
Now updated with a major new afterword that incorporates the latest cosmological research, this
classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what
happened whe... More info...
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Tacitus: The HistoriesWritten By : TacitusNarrated By : James AdamsPublished By : Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 10 hours 10 minutesCategories : AncientDownload Price : $17.99
Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, describes and interprets his own period, beginning
with the political situation following Nero’s death and ending at the close of the Flavian
dynasty. More info...
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Persian Expedition, TheWritten By : Xenophon; Translated by Rex WarnerNarrated By : Pat BottinoPublished By : Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 10 hours 6 minutesCategories : AncientDownload Price : $21.75
Xenophon, after being exiled from Athens, spent the last years of his life hunting, writing,
and recalling in his books the great days of the Persian expedition. More info...
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History of RomeWritten By : Charles LeBoefNarrated By : Peter NorthwardPublished By : trout lake audioDuration : 3 hours 20 minutesCategories : AncientDownload Price : $4.99
A short history of Rome. It's people, places, army and pastimes. More info...
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"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the
body."
-- Sir Richard
Steele
"I've never known any trouble that an hours reading
didn't assuage."
-- Charles de
Secondat
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from
the reading of a book."
-- Henry David
Thoreau
" I cannot live without
books."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is
transitory, the other perpetual."
-- Socrates
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should
ask him what books he reads."
-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Books are embalmed
minds."
-- Bovee
"Never be entirely idle, but either be reading,
writing, praying, meditating, or endeavoring something good for the public."
-- Thomas A. Kempis
"Words are the voice of the
heart."
-- Confucious
"Resolve to edge in a little reading everyday, even if
it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the
year."
-- Horace Mann
"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that
solitude can afford you."
-- Harold Bloom
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read
them."
-- Mark Twain
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