The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters runs 9.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 1,484 Ancient Civilizations audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart
Dugald Bruce Lockhart narrates 30 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 250 hours in all.
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- Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010–2015
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About as long, on the Ancient Civilizations shelf
104 Ancient Civilizations audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters is an audiobook by Adam Nicolson: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Dugald Bruce Lockhart, released February 26, 2015, on the Ancient Civilizations and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Released
- February 26, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Ancient Civilizations, Biography & Memoir, Literature
- ISBN
- 9780008136970
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters as an audiobook?
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters?
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters is narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart.