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Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.

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The Iliad

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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

By: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2

Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins

Release date: 14-12-2012

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
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The Iliad

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By: Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu, Peter Jones

Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd

Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 23-04-2020

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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The Odyssey

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By: Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu, Peter Jones

Narrated by: George Blagden

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Release date: 26-09-2019

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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The Iliad

By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator

Narrated by: Audra McDonald

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1, Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1

Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 26-09-2023

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
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The Iliad

By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator

Narrated by: Charlton Griffin

Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins

Release date: 15-01-2009

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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The Odyssey

A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn

By: Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn - translator

Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2

Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins

Release date: 24-04-2025

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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The Odyssey

By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 16-12-1999

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
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The Iliad

By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins

Release date: 14-06-2010

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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The Odyssey

Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2

By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator

Narrated by: Claire Danes

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2, Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2

Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins

Release date: 20-11-2018

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
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The Odyssey

By: Homer, George Herbert Palmer - translator

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 19-10-2000

Language: English

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Iliad

By: Homer, Stanley Lombardo - translator

Narrated by: Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon - introduction

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 28-09-2007

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Michael Bronks

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Release date: 16-06-2025

Language: English

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25+ the Big Book of Ancient Classics

The Odyssey by Homer, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Republic by Plato, Poetics by Aristotle and Others

By: Aristotle, Aeschylus, Marcus Aurelius, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Plato, Sappho, Sophocles

Narrated by: Stacey M. Patterson, Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, Emma Gibson, Kelli Winkler

Length: 60 hrs and 55 mins

Release date: 06-09-2024

Language: English

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The Odyssey, the Republic, Meditations, the Divine Comedy, Faust and Others

10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die - Vol. 5

By: Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Peter Coates, Stacey M. Patterson, Douglass Scott, Joe Phoenix, Luana Marantz, Mark Bowen

Series: 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Book 5

Length: 54 hrs and 46 mins

Release date: 24-01-2025

Language: English

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The Iliad & the Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Joey Clark

Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins

Release date: 23-01-2025

Language: English

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The Iliad

By: Homer, Stephen Mitchell - translator

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins

Release date: 15-12-2011

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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The Iliad

By: Homer, Samuel Butler - translator

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins

Release date: 22-03-2012

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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The Odyssey

By: Homer, Ian Johnston - translator

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Release date: 31-12-2006

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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Odyssey

By: Homer, Stanley Lombardo - translator

Narrated by: Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon - introduction

Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 28-09-2007

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

The Odyssey, the Works and Days, Theogony, the Complete Poems of Sappho, Medea, Antigone, Oresteia, the Odes of Anacreon

By: Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Anacreon

Narrated by: Peter Coates, Kelli Winkler, Mark Bowen

Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins

Release date: 11-01-2024

Language: English

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