The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace runs 8.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Robert Fass (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.9 hours, it is shorter than 53% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Robert Fass
Robert Fass narrates 294 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,196 hours in all.
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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 Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace is an audiobook by Dean Karnazes: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert Fass, released October 25, 2016, on the World and Ancient Civilizations shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robert Fass
- Released
- October 25, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Ancient Civilizations, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781515978961
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace as an audiobook?
The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace?
The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace is narrated by Robert Fass.