Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman… by Tom Holland · Audiobook preview

PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEDSplXmlM Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic Authored by Tom Holland Narrated by Tom Holland 0:00 Intro 0:03 Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic 0:16 Preface 22:57 1: The Paradoxical Republic 1:29:46 2: The Sibyl’s Curse 1:31:32 Outro #tomholland #rubiconthetriumphandtragedyoftheromanrepublic — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION 'The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight' 'I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not just for reminding me of the great figures who bestrode the Roman world – Pompey and Crassus, Cato, Cicero and Caesar – but for explaining what it was that made Rome the greatest superpower the world has known, why it lasted so long and what caused its eventual fall' Daily Mail 'Gripping and hugely entertaining. It is a story crammed with drama and spectacle... but the real attraction of Holland's book is the wit and contemporary sensibility that he brings to his often bloody tale' Books of the Year, Sunday Times 'This is narrative history at its best... it really held me, in fact, obsessed me' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER — ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tom Holland is an award–winning historian, author and broadcaster. His bestselling books include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell–Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, which won the Anglo–Hellenic League's Runciman Award; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom; In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World; Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar; and Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. Holland has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics and followed in 2016 by a history of Æthelstan published under the Penguin Monarchs series, and in 2019 Æthelflæd England's Forgotten Founder as a Ladybird Expert Book. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to 'the individual who has done most… — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEDSplXmlM Language: English Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Published on: June 6, 2024 ISBN: 9781405561440 Duration: 14 hr, 30 min Genres: History / Ancient / General, History / Ancient / Rome, History / Europe / General, History / General, History / Military / General, History / World