History of Greece

An Enthralling Overview of Greek History

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Jay Herbert

It’s really here: Greece’s entire history encapsulated in one volume!

This audiobook takes listeners on a succinct journey from Greece’s first settlements all the way to the 20th century. Its easy-to-follow yet meticulously-researched narrative will captivate history buffs, students, and anyone interested in learning more about Greece.

This concise overview covers Greece’s Stone Age and Bronze Age civilizations, its archaic and classical eras, its centuries under Roman rule, and the fascinating Byzantine Empire. It travels through Greece’s period under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, then its emancipation and formation of a parliamentary democracy that continued into the 20th century.

Here are some of the questions this audiobook will answer about Greece’s riveting history:

• How did a catastrophic volcanic eruption impact Greece’s first advanced civilization?
• Did the Trojan War really happen?
• How did the Greeks defeat the Persians’ million-man army?
• Which classical Greeks theorized that constantly moving atoms form all matter?
• How did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian Empire in less than a decade?
• Why was the New Testament first written in Koine Greek?
• Why did the Byzantine Empire persist after the Western Roman Empire fell?
• What Byzantine emperor’s daughter was a medical doctor and history writer?
• How did a secret organization help free Greece from the Ottoman Empire?
• Which Greek king died of a monkey bite?

©2023 Billy Wellman (P)2023 Billy Wellman

Completeness of the coverage

Really needs maps to aid understanding I printed map from Google Earth which helped greatly.

Very informative

Well written and very informative. I chose this prior to my trip to Athens. Very helpful.

Ned Flanders reads a history of Greece

The pacing and information in this book seems good, but I couldn’t get past the narrator’s choice of rising inflection/cadence. The inflections are so repetitive I was shocked to find this wasn’t just script given to AI to voice over, and the constantly chipper, vaguely startled quality of the narration jars with the often serious subject matter. All the was missing was the ‘diddly-iddlies’

I was also surprised to hear the narrator mention off-handedly that Minoans practiced cannibalism; this is a very contested position with basically no direct evidence, but it was asserted without going into the evidence or mention of alternative views, which places a pall of doubt over the veracity of the work as a whole.