Ancient Civilizations

General

The Bible

Epic of Gilgamesh Audio Editions

 *Special Note: This is from the 3rd millennium BC. The story is about the king of Uruk and his futile quest for immortality.


Bulfinch, Thomas
     The Age of Fable Blackstone Audiobooks

 

Machen, J. Gresham
     The New Testament: An Introduction to its Literature and History

Hebrews

The Bible

Heroes and Warriors Book Series (Firebird Books) (6th - 8th grade)
     Healy, Mark
         Joshua: Conqueror of Canaan
         Judas Maccabeus: Rebel of Israel
         King David: Warlord of Israel

Johnson, Paul
     A History of the Jews Blackstone Audiobooks

Josephus
     Jewish Antiquities
     The Jewish War
     The Life of Josephus

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugene
     Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

Egypt

The Bible

Henty, G. A.
     The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
             (ISBN #1-887159-18-5)

Greece

The Bible

Aristotle
         Nicomachean Ethics
         Athenian Constitution
         Politics Blackstone Audiobooks
         The Land of Little Rain
         Ethics Blackstone Audiobooks
         
Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logics
         Virtue and Vices

Euripides
        Electra, Cliff Notes

Hamilton, Edith
       The Echo of Greece
       The Greek Way

Henty, G. A.
       The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal
              (ISBN #1-887159-12-6)

Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
       On Ancient Medicine
       The Oath

Homer
      The Illiad (962 B.C. ?) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
      
The Odyssey (917 B. C. ?) Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes

Livy
      The War with Hannibal
      The History of Rome

Plato
      Apology of Socrates Books on Tape, Cliff Notes
      Trial and Death of Socrates
      Crito Books on Tape
      The Mind of Plato
      The Republic Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes
      The Dialogues of Plato Blackstone Audiobooks

Thucydides
      History of the Peloponnesian War Blackstone Audiobooks & Audio Editions

Rome

Augustine (Augustinus)
      The City of God Stirling Bridge, Blackstone Audiobooks
      
The Confessions of St. Augustine Blackstone Audiobooks

Augustus
      The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Aurelius, Marcus
       The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Blackstone Audiobooks

Basil the Great
       On the Holy Spirit

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
       Last Days of Pompeii (1834)

Caesar, Julius
       The African Wars
       The Alexandrian Wars
       The Civil Wars
       The Gallic Wars
       The Spanish Wars
       The Conquest of Gaul
       The Civil War

Costain, Thomas B.
       Silver Chalice

Douglas, Lloyd C.
       The Robe

Foxe, John
       Foxe's Book of Martyrs Blackstone Audiobooks

Gibbon, Edward
      The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Blackstone Audiobooks & Audio              Editions*

Grant, Michael
      The Classical Greeks Blackstone Audiobooks
      The Rise of the Greeks Blackstone Audiobooks
      The Founders of the Western World Blackstone Audiobooks

Graves, Robert
     Count Belisarius Books on Tape

Hamilton, Edith
     The Roman Way

Henty, G. A.
      For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
                (ISBN # 1-887159-00-2)
      Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion
                (ISBN #1-887159-06-1)

Livy
      The War with Hannibal

Patrick, Saint
          The Confessions of Saint Patrick

Pliny the Younger

Plutarch
       Plutarch's Lives Stirling Bridge, Blackstone Audiobooks
       The Age of Alexander
       On Love, the Family, and the Good Life
       The Rise and Fall of Athens
       Makers of Rome
       Fall of the Roman Republic
       Caesar

Polybius
       The Rise of the Roman Empire

Shakespeare, William
      Antony and Cleopatra, Cliff Notes
      Julius Caesar (1607) Audio Editions (BBC), Cliff Notes

Sienkiewicz, Henryk
      Quo Vadis

Sophocles
      Antigone Cliff Notes

Suetonius
      The Twelve Caesars Books on Tape

Tacitus
      The Annals of Imperial Rome
      The Histories of Rome

Virgil
      The Aeneid Blackstone Audiobooks, Cliff Notes

Wallace, Lew
      Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) Blackstone Audiobooks

 

Special Videos:

You will probably need to do an interlibrary loan from a local university for these videos. They are not "Hollywood" style. Obviously, I have not seen all these videos. However, the ones that I have seen have spurred me on to make them a recommendation. It must be stated that these videos are not from a Christian worldview perspective, but they do have many redeeming qualities (i.e., information hard to obtain in any other manner short of visiting a particular country!) Therefore, I would love to hear comments from anybody that has previewed a particular video or videos for feedback!

Rolland Collection: 3500 BC - AD 1000

The Sumerian Kingdom of Ur
Babylon: The Gate of the Gods
Assurnasirpal: The Assyrian King
Hatra
The Mesopotamian Heritage of Islamic     Architecture
Borobudur: Beyond the Reach of time
 Nubia '64
 Greek Pottery
 Etruscan Tombs of Volterra
 Pompeii, City of Painting
 Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment

     
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