Ancient Rome
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Ancient Rome
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Narrated by:
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John Lescault
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By:
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Thomas R. Martin
About this listen
With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for 500 years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century BC through Justinian's rule in the sixth century AD, he offers a distinctive perspective on the Romans and their civilization by employing fundamental Roman values as a lens through which to view both their rise and spectacular fall.
Interweaving social, political, religious, and cultural history, Martin interprets the successes and failures of the Romans in war, political organization, quest for personal status, and in the integration of religious beliefs and practices with government. He focuses on the central role of social and moral values in determining individual conduct as well as decisions of state, from monarchy to republic to empire. Striving to reconstruct ancient history from the ground up, he includes frequent references to ancient texts and authors, encouraging readers to return to the primary sources.
Comprehensive, concise, and accessible, this masterful account provides a unique window into Rome and its changing fortune.
©2018 Thomas R. Martin (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
My first Audible Book. Impressed.
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As someone who came to the subject with essentially zero knowledge, this has helped me at least get something of a grasp on this time. If you are already well read on this period I doubt there is much here to entice you as it doesn't deal with any one subject in depth, but given that it covers such a huge span of time in less than 9 hours, that's understandable.
The narrator is absolutely fine. It's certainly not the most inspired reading I've heard, and doesn't liven up what is potentially already a dry subject, but it's clear and well read throughout.
An excellent starting place
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Very informative
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Poorly read
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not as good as Ancient Greece
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Reads like a textbook
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its ok
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The reader is decently competent, mispronounced a few names here and there., but not too egregious.
Lightweight and superficial content. Reader ok.
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why this narrator?
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As to the content in which through the first 600 years of the empire in double quick time then it deals in mind-numbing detail with the growth of the Christian church. I am not at a religious seminary and was bored out of my skull. I suggest this book is largely for those of a Christian religious persuasion. Otherwise don’t waste your time like I did
Like a Catholic priests version of History
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