Showing titles in Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature
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The Meditations: An Emperor's Guide to Mastery
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Ancient Renewal, Sam Torode - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Torode
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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How to think clearly, act purposefully, overcome any obstacle, and find peace and happiness along the way. The Meditations is a collection of Marcus' personal journal entries. They were not intended for publication but to remind Marcus himself of his principles and priorities. As a result, they are intimate, direct, and extremely useful. This new edition is rendered in contemporary English, with a foreword by Sam Torode.
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Great book
- By Esther van der Lecq on 14-11-19
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The Meditations: An Emperor's Guide to Mastery
- Narrated by: Sam Torode
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature
- By: Prof. Timothy Shutt
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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From the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of addressing the human condition in literary terms. The major epics are the big boys, the works that, from the very outset, everyone had heard of and everyone knew, at least by reputation.
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The Modern Scholar
- Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-10-08
- Language: English
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La odisea y la Ilíada [The Odyssey and the Iliad]
- By: Homero
- Narrated by: Ely Garcia, Manuel Renteria
- Length: 27 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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La odisea es un poema épico escrito por Homero del Siglo XV. Esta versión es fiel al texto original. La Ilíada es un poema épico escrito por Homero del Siglo XV. Esta versión es fiel al texto original. El narrador habla claramente y el audio es de la mejor calidad. No hay una manera mejor para disfrutar esta obra clásica.
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La odisea y la Ilíada [The Odyssey and the Iliad]
- Narrated by: Ely Garcia, Manuel Renteria
- Length: 27 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: Spanish
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Abridged
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The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus, the cunning king of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to the love of Calypso on her all-too-comfortable isle.
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-11-07
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Homer (Dramatization)
- By: Yuri Rasovsky
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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When this groundbreaking serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise. It won numerous honors including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting. Never before or since has such an ambitious undertaking been attempted in public radio, and it was accomplished, not by a major network, but by a small nonprofit independent producer in Chicago. That was in 1981. It has been sitting on the shelf ever since.
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A good listen
- By Mark on 09-07-06
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The Odyssey of Homer (Dramatization)
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-05-04
- Language: English
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On Benefits
- By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The original Latin name of this important essay by Seneca, written around 60 CE, was De Beneficiis, which is why it is generally translated as ‘On Benefits'. However, it is more usefully titled ‘On Favours', because this is what it is essentially about: the giving and receiving of favours, with all the implications of such transactions.
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On Benefits
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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The Glance
- Songs of Soul-Meeting
- By: Jalaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks, Robert Various
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the great icons of mysticism, by the Persian poet who has captured today’s spiritual audience - now in a first-ever English translation by his premier interpreter. In an intriguing and deeply personal introduction to the exquisitely packaged The Glance, Coleman Barks interprets this love that transcends time, gender, sex, and age. This program features 12 sensational poems enhanced with music to intensify the mystical Rumi experience.
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The Glance
- Songs of Soul-Meeting
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks, Robert Various
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 23-07-21
- Language: English
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The Iliad: Unabridged for Audible
- By: Homer, F L Light - translator
- Narrated by: Jack Nolan
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Frederick Lazarus Light's resolve to write a greater Iliad in English than Homer composed in Greek is manifest. This translation impersonates Homeric Greek. It runs with Achilleus and like man-shattering Hector in the shock of arms is resolutely sharp. As unrelenting as sublimity, not yielding lyrically, unprosaically vindicating Homer's vision, the brightest labor has been attempted and is brought over as a consummate attempt.
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brilliant but difficult
- By Si + Neetz on 05-01-23
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The Iliad: Unabridged for Audible
- Narrated by: Jack Nolan
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-07-14
- Language: English
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The Voysey Inheritance
- By: Harley Granville-Barker
- Narrated by: Paxton Whitehead, Paul Gutrecht, Robin Gammell, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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In this suprisingly modern psychological portrait, a prosperous Edwardian family is torn apart when young Edward Voysey discovers that his family's wealth was obtained through three generations of deceit and theft. This is a captivating study of turn-of-the-century morals.
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The Voysey Inheritance
- Narrated by: Paxton Whitehead, Paul Gutrecht, Robin Gammell, Serena Scott Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-04-04
- Language: English
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On Clemency
- By: Seneca
- Narrated by: Robin Homer
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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On Clemency is a two volume (incomplete) hortatory essay written in 55-56 CE by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to the emperor Nero in the first five years of his reign. From Seneca's remarks, it would appear that it was written after Nero had turned 18, which would place it after the murder of his rival Britannicus in 55 AD. It may therefore have been written partly as an apology, perhaps as a means of assuring the Roman nobility that the murder would be the end, not the beginning of bloodshed.
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On Clemency
- Narrated by: Robin Homer
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-07-20
- Language: English
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Le metamorfosi [The Metamorphosis]
- By: Ovidio
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio, insieme all'Iliade, l'Odissea e l'Eneide, è il libro più famoso ed importante che ci sia arrivato dall'antichità. Diviso in 15 libri, contiene circa 250 miti che hanno in comune il tema della trasformazione. Molti dei protagonisti di questi miti sono alla base della nostra cultura. Solo per fare qualche esempio: Eco, Narciso, Europa, Medea, Arianna, Pigmalione, Prometeo, Pan, Ermafrodito, Dedalo ed Icaro, Venere ed Adone.
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Le metamorfosi [The Metamorphosis]
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-03-15
- Language: Italian
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The Modern Scholar
- Classical Mythology: The Romans
- By: Professor Peter Meineck
- Narrated by: Professor Peter Meineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE. By the middle of the second century CE, Rome had a population of 1.5 million; Alexandria, in Egypt, 500,000; and Londinium, in Briton, 30,000.
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Myths and their meaning
- By Rogayah on 06-06-10
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The Modern Scholar
- Classical Mythology: The Romans
- Narrated by: Professor Peter Meineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-11-09
- Language: English
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Measure for Measure
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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When a young woman is offered the choice ofsaving a man's life at the price of her own chastity,what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority...
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Measure for Measure
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-07-07
- Language: English
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The Republic (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In search of an ideal civilization, Socrates leads Glaucon, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, and others in debates about various subjects, including justice, truth, class, and art. For without righteousness, tyranny and injustice give rise to oligarchy. The influential dialogues of The Republic helped shape all of Western literature and philosophical thought. It is as much a doctrine of ethics and politics now as it was for the ancient Greeks, and its dilemma remains: how to create a perfect society populated by very imperfect human beings.
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The Republic (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-05-18
- Language: English
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Coriolanus
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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A classic performance of one of the Bard's classics. Raised to the heights of power in recognition of his bravery against the Volscian army, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, finds himself betrayed by Brutus and Sicinius. Exiled from Rome and seeking vengeance, Coriolanus allies himself with the...
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Coriolanus
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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The Georgics
- Narrated by: Cecil Day Lewis
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 26-02-09
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
- By: Li Po, Po Li, David Hinton, and others
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Li Po (AD 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1,200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed.
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Utterly beautiful, shame no index
- By Tout en chantant on 26-09-23
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-12-17
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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This Greek tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who, in defiance of the gods, gives fire to mankind, an act for which he is subjected to perpetual punishment.The play consists almost entirely of speeches since the protagonist is chained throughout.
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Prometheus Bound
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-07-19
- Language: English
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The Tree of Strife
- A BBC Radio 4 Icelandic Saga Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: David Wade
- Narrated by: Bernard Hepton, Maureen O'Brien, Struan Rodger, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by an anonymous storyteller in the 13th Century, and describing events between 960 and 1020, Njáls saga is one of the great works of medieval literature. The longest and most celebrated of the Icelandic sagas, it deals with family honour, vengeance and a vicious blood feud spanning almost 50 years. Based on the classic translation by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, this gripping dramatisation centres around two friends.
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Very Enjoyable
- By Highlight on 26-11-22
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The Tree of Strife
- A BBC Radio 4 Icelandic Saga Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Bernard Hepton, Maureen O'Brien, Struan Rodger, Norman Rodway, Barbara Jefford, Robert Glenister, Maggie McCarthy, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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The Georgics
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Virgil's Georgics ranks as one of the most precious pastoral poems ever written, and it has served as a model for its type ever since. Georgics means "of or relating to agriculture or rural life" and it comes from the Greek word, "georgicus". Virgil's main theme in this, his second great work after The Eclogues, was the importance of peace both in the spiritual and physical sense.
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Don't judge a book by its cover
- By Clothilda on 10-06-20
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The Georgics
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-05-07
- Language: English
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