The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Susan Wise Bauer ID: B00D1YRUL4
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath” – literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts – to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 26 hours and 26 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Audible StudiosAudible.com Release Date: August 12, 2013Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00D1YRUL4 Best Sellers Rank: #2 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > Ancient #2 in Books > History > Ancient Civilizations > Greece #6 in Books > History > Ancient Civilizations > Rome
This may be the finest general introduction to Ancient History for the non-specialist I’ve yet read. Ms Bauer impresses out of the gate by declaring that she will a) focus on personalities and their roles in ancient cultures and b) disregard any civilization’s story from the pre-literate era. These are two EXCELLENT decisions for the writer of a general, introductory history to stick with, regardless of how much they may upset the modern specialists out there.
In choosing to simply accept that the vast majority of our available records cover the rulers of the ancient era at the expense of almost any documentation on the lives of the common man, Bauer weaves a narrative that covers that which we reasonably know in a lively, fast-moving fashion, pulling off the tricky feat of acknowledging the gaps in the historical record without getting bogged down in them. The primary movers of the ancient era come alive as the author takes us on a trip through the Sumerian List of Kings, the Bible as a historical document, the disappointing dearth of records of ancient Indian civilizations, and the wealth of Greek and Roman sources. The small, manageable chapters each cover a logically broken-up chunk of a given region’s history, with helpful charts at the end of each showing the overlap in events between the current chapter’s region and the same timeframe for the previous chapter’s region.
Ms Bauer’s style of writing is also commendable. She has a lively sense of phrIDg that keeps the reader moving through the centuries at a fast clip. Some of her footnotes are actually chuckle-worthy, which helps to break up the overall slog of warfare, drought, famine, enslavement, et al.
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