Feeling Ancient

Wake, Siren

Ovid Resung

By: Nina MacLaughlin
Narrated by: Nina MacLaughlin
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people’s tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I’ll tell it myself.Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses, populate the famous... Read more

Beowulf: A New Translation

By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Bro! This is not your English teacher's Beowulf. Maria Dahvana Headley's "radical new translation" takes the familiar story of man versus monster and turns it into something both completely new and also as timeless as the original. What happens when Beowulf is less hero and more party boy? Or when Grendel's mother isn't a monster but just a... Read more

Pandora's Jar

Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more

Divine Might

Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“Natalie Haynes writes as if she knows these goddesses personally, and this audiobook is her telling us all their secrets. I found myself falling back in love with greek mythology, and looking at it's female deities in new lights, for better and for worse. Read more

24 Hours in Ancient China

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Yijie Zhuang
Narrated by: Kathleen Li
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese.



Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same... Read more

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Donald P. Ryan
Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Egyptians.

Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.

During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet... Read more

24 Hours in Ancient Athens

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Philip Matyszak
Narrated by: David Vickery & Gareth Richards
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary, and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the... Read more

24 Hours in Ancient Rome

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

24 Hours in Ancient History: Book #1

By: Philip Matyszak
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals.



What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities—one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York?



In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour... Read more