Ancient Philosophy

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    • Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
    • By: Donald J. Robertson
    • Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • How to Think Like Socrates is an accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Julia Annas
    • Narrated by: Pamela Gold
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich, and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces listeners to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes....

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    • By: Polybius, W. R. Paton - translator
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 37 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • The rise of Rome is one of the great stories of world history and fortunately we have a reliable and at times an eyewitness account, from the Greek historian Polybius of Megalopolis....

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    • A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
    • By: The Three Intiates
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-13
    • Language: English
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    • >He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and he possessed all divine knowledge....

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    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • With characteristic clarity and elegance, A. C. Grayling takes the listener from the worldviews and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates through Christianity's capture of the European mind....

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    • An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Diogenes, M. D. Usher - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
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    • How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters—from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity....

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    • The Pre-Socratics
    • By: John Burnet
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-21
    • Language: English
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    • Although it was originally published in 1892, Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet remains unquestionably one of the most respected and admired surveys of the pre-Socratics. It is an illuminating springboard into classical Greek philosophy....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • A History of Ancient Rome
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,857 ratings
    • Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....

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    • A Plain Translation
    • By: Ken Liu
    • Narrated by: BD Wong
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Introducing a new translation of Laozi’s classic work that makes the intimidating approachable and the complex comprehensible....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,769 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure
    • By: Manly P. Hall
    • Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
    • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachings of All Ages....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-99
    • Language: English
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    • The Dialogues of Plato (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought...

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    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....

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    • An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
    • By: Adam Makos
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,628 ratings
    • Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany....

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