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    • The First World Empire, Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For 70 years, victory had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire....

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Professor Llewellyn-Jones calls upon original Achaemenid sources, including inscriptions, art and recent archaeological discoveries in Iran, to create an authentic 'Persian Version' of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity—the Age of the Great Kings....

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    • A Novel of Alexander the Great
    • By: Mary Renault
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas....

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    • The March of the Ten Thousand, or Anabasis
    • By: Xenophon
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Seeking to depose his brother Artaxerxes and take his place upon the Persian throne, Cyrus the Younger leads the 10,000 mercenaries on a dangerous campaign deep into the heart of Persia....

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    • Resistance to Alexander the Great
    • By: Waldemar Heckel
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated....

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    • By: Herodotus
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the world's greatest works of literature. The Persian Wars is part history, part geography, part anthropology...and completely entertaining....

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    • By: Aeschylus, Mark Will
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Aeschylus’ historical tragedy Persians, with its dire warnings against the hubris of imperialist overreach, is as relevant today as it was when first presented to an Athenian audience in 472 BC....

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    • An Enthralling Guide to the History of Persia and the Persian Empire (Exploring the Middle East)
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Today, Persia is known as the country of Iran, but long ago, Persia was once home to various nomadic tribes. It saw the rise of many empires and dynasties....

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    • Translation by F L Light
    • By: Aeschylus, F L Light
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in The Persians by Aeschylus....

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    • An Enthralling Overview of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
    • By: Enthralling History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • With unimaginable wealth, palace intrigues, birthday parties featuring fine wine and endless desserts, lavish architecture and gardens, an underground water system, and a 1,500-mile Royal Road, the ancient Persian Empire captures the imagination....

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    • By: Tessa Afshar
    • Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than escaping them....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the King Who Conquered the Persian Empire and Babylon, Including His Impact on Ancient Greece and Rome
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Alexander of Macedon was only 33 years old when he died, leaving behind him a sprawling empire of impressive size, which encompassed dozens of different people groups, religions, cultures, customs, and - of course - problems....

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    • A Captivating Guide to One of the Greatest Battles in Ancient History Between the Spartans and Persians
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most famous battles in human history. It featured two of the ancient world’s most prominent cultures, the Achaemenid-led Persian Empire and the fragmented yet culturally advanced Greeks....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek City-States, Including the Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and More
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Greco-Persian Wars are often portrayed as a battle between good and evil. This is simultaneously an exaggeration and an oversimplification....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Persia, Starting from the Ancient Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian Empires to the Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar Dynasties
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • One of the most shocking things about the Persians is how quickly they went from an obscure, powerless, and nomadic tribe to an immense empire that spanned across western Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe....

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    • The Persian Wars
    • By: Herodotus, A. D. Godley Translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Herodotus was a Greek historian born in Halicarnassus, subject at the time of the great Persian Empire....

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    • By: Xenophon
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Children's Edition
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the East married the West with a remarkable voyage at its heart - the journey along the Silk Roads....

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