Audiobooks by Alexander the Great

History's Great Speeches: The Definitive Collection: 40 hours of historical highlights from Pericles

"This complete edition spans 2,400 years (431 BCE–1944) in 40 hours, 155 speeches, and 52 speakers, including foundational addresses by Gandhi and Mao—voices that shaped modern Asia. Begin in 431 BCE with Demosthenes, whose structural genius remains the DNA of modern expression. Traverse Athens’ zenith via Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Alexander’s volatile proclamations, and Rome’s crisis in Cicero’s showdown with Cataline—featuring Caesar’s sole surviving senate address and Mark Antony’s incendiary eulogy. Witness rhetoric’s rebirth after a millennium: from Prophet Mohammed’s Farewell and Pope Urban II’s Crusade call, to Pico della Mirandola’s Renaissance-sparking Oration and Milton’s defiant Satan. The Reformation ignites through Luther’s 95 Theses and Calvin’s satirical Treatise on Relics, while Enlightenment firebrands Pitt, Burke, and Robespierre (whose anti-death-penalty stance mirrors Cicero) fuel revolutions. The collection illuminates seismic shifts: Luther's 95 Theses and Calvin's Treatise on Relics defining the Reformation; the Enlightenment and Revolutionary fervor articulated by Pitt, Burke, and Robespierre's chilling discourses on Terror; the birth of American liberty through Patrick Henry and Washington; and the tumultuous End of Empire featuring Napoleon's legendary addresses, Daniel O'Connell, and Frederick Douglass' searing indictments of slavery. Delve into challenges to order with anarchists Proudhon and Bakunin. Witness the forging of modern polities through Bismarck's 'Blood and Iron', Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Susan B. Anthony's suffrage plea, and Swami Vivekananda's groundbreaking Parliament address. Chart the Rise of Socialism with William Morris, Annie Besant, and Eugene Debs' heroic workers pleas from prison. We finish with transformative modern voices: Gandhi 's South African struggle and early activism and Mao Tse-Tung's defining wartime addresses Gandhi’s early and Mao’s revolutionary manifestos."

AM Sullivan, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Apponyi, Alexander the Great, Annie Besant, Caius Memmius, Caius Marius, Catiline, Cato The Younger, Charles Phillips, Chief Joseph, Daniel O'Connell, Demosthenes, Dinarchus, Edmund Burke, Eduard Bernstein, Edward Carpenter, Elizabeth I, Emilio Castelar, Eugene Debs, Frederick Douglass, Gaetano, George Graham Vest, Girolamo Savonarola, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, Julius Caesar, Louis Kossuth, Louis Lingg, Mao Tse-Tung, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Mark Anthony, Mark Twain, Martin Luther, Maximillian Robespierre, Mikhail Bakunin, Mohandas Gandhi, Muhammad, Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck, Pericles, Peter Kropotkin, Phillip Melanchthon, Pico della Mirandola, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Pope Urban II, Red Jacket, Robert Emmet, Susan B Anthony, Swami Vivekananda, William Lloyd Garrison, William Morris, William Pitt (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Graeco-Roman Era

"Five speeches from the legendary orators Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Pericles. 431 BCE: Pericles’ Funeral Oration is a valedictory and eulogy for the great age of Athenian democracy. Reported by Thucydides, it was given at the first annual public funeral for casualties of the Peloponnesian War. That war ended twenty-seven years later with the democratic government of Athens overthrown by an oligarchy known as The Four Hundred. 324BCE: Two speeches by Alexander the Great, reported by the historian Arrian in his Anabasis. Both speeches are a direct address to his army on embarking on a new campaign. The first was given in Opis, Mesopotamia, when rallying his armies to start a new campaign into Persia. The army took heart, and successfully conquered the Persian Empire, adding it to Alexander’s many existing conquests. The second speech is given after the first campaign is over. This time Alexander is ready to move into the Indian subcontinent. After travelling across the known world, the entire army took the offer to quit fighting and go home. This leaves Alexander understandably upset, and produces history’s most finely worded example of saying “After all I’ve done for you! Well, you can all get stuffed then, you bunch of ingrates. I hope you choke.” In 63BCE, the Cataline Conspiracy shook Rome. It was a deep shock to the Roman system, and risked civil war. Included here are speeches by the Consul Cicero and the only extant speech of Julius Caesar. Cicero’s First Speech is a rabble-rousing, impassioned, and slightly unhinged attack upon Cataline and his associates. It speaks to the outrage of the body politic and the masses. Caesar’s speech is a jurisprudential appeal to create no new laws to punish these crimes. Caesar argues that the republic would be ultimately harmed if they were not punished only under existing laws, as people remember the punishment but not the crime."

Alexander the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Pericles (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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Speech to the Army

"Alexander the Great delivered this stirring speech to his army before the battle for India against King Porus’ forces. He had led his men undefeated for ten years, and together they had conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia. Yet thought they had already achieved greatness, he urged them to see this next fight through to the end, for it was a matter of glory. He urged them on, saying, “You and I, gentlemen, have shared the labor and shared the danger, and the rewards are for us all.” "

Alexander the Great (Author), John Potter (Narrator)

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