The Longest Ancient Civilizations Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 26 unabridged Ancient Civilizations audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Ancient Civilizations shelf sits under History on the store.

#	Title	Author	Length
1	Plutarch’s Lives, Vol. 1	Plutarch	42.4 hrs
2	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I	Edward Gibbon	41.5 hrs
3	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2	Edward Gibbon	40.5 hrs
4	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3	Edward Gibbon	39 hrs
5	The Histories	Polybius	37.6 hrs
6	Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to AD 325	Will Durant	36.6 hrs
7	Ancient Egypt - Light Of The World Volume 1	Gerald Massey	33.9 hrs
8	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V	Edward Gibbon	32.7 hrs
9	The Life of Greece: A History of Greek Civilization from the Beginnings, and of Civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander, to the Roman Conquest	Will Durant	32.6 hrs
10	Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization	Graham Hancock	31.6 hrs
11	The Histories	Herodotus	27.1 hrs
12	The New Testament in Its World: Part 1: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians	Michael F. Bird	25.5 hrs
13	Caesar: Life of a Colossus	Adrian Goldsworthy	24.9 hrs
14	Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume 1	John Matthews	24.5 hrs
15	The Wars of the Jews	Flavius Josephus	23.5 hrs
16	The History of the Peloponnesian War	Thucydides	22.6 hrs
17	The Eternal City: A History of Rome	Fredinand Addis	22.1 hrs
18	Letters from a Stoic - A New English Translation - Adapted for the Contemporary Reader: Complete (Letters 1-124)	Lucius Annaeus Seneca	21.9 hrs
19	Hellenic History	George Willis Botsford	20.9 hrs
20	The Jewish War	Flavius Josephus	20.9 hrs
21	The Last Great War of Antiquity	James Howard-Johnston	20.8 hrs
22	Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors	Adrian Goldsworthy	20.6 hrs
23	The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict	Adrian Goldsworthy	20.4 hrs
24	Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece	Adrian Goldsworthy	20.3 hrs
25	Alexandria: The City that Changed the World	Islam Issa	20.2 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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