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The Iliad of Homer
- By: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the
Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people. Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece -whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the
Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written.
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- By Timothy Smith on 29-12-2020
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The Iliad of Homer
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Series: The Great Courses: Western Literature
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- Language: English
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- By: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.
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- By Mr on 12-09-2014
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2012
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy. Many scholars believe that The Odyssey was originally composed as an oral tradition and was more likely meant to be heard than read, making it a great listen.
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Incredible
- By Vicki W on 08-04-2026
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2012
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Odyssey: The most widely read work of all time has endured in humanity just as the name of its protagonist has. It is a book recognized and acclaimed by adults and youth from different parts of the world, much like the cunning Odysseus, King of Ithaca, whom we follow on his epic adventure back home after fighting in Troy. Although this edition has not been subjected to bloody wars, giants, or cyclopes, it can certainly draw you deep into the most restless imagination.
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2026
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Edward Earl of Derby - translator
- Narrated by: Dikran Tulaine
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Illiad dates back to the 8th century BC and is Homer's epic precursor to The Odyssey. Set during the Trojan War, it tells of battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Dikran Tulaine
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 29-02-2012
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―rendering the ancient poem in contemporary language that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.
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Really thoughtful translation and an interesting window into history
- By Jett Mowle on 03-07-2024
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Series: Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1, Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2023
- Language: English
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The Powerful Women of Homer's Odyssey
- By: Jessica Blum-Sorensen, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jessica Blum-Sorensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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In Wives, Witches, and Whirlpools: The Powerful Women of Homer’s Odyssey, Professor Jessica Blum-Sorensen helps you explore this classic work with fresh eyes, focusing not on the eponymous hero, but on the many women whose voices and motivations invite us to rethink traditional ideas of heroism. Across seven lectures, you’ll reexamine some of the foundational themes of the literary canon from a new perspective and discover why the deities, wives, maidens, witches, and monsters who populate Homer’s Odyssey are more than a match for its hero.
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The Powerful Women of Homer's Odyssey
- Narrated by: Jessica Blum-Sorensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2026
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance143
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The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...
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An Enduring Epic
- By Sweener on 23-01-2023
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 16-12-1999
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance146
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Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War, he doesn’t realize this simple undertaking will become a perilous journey of 10 years. Beset at every turn, he encounters obstacles, detours, and temptations—both supernatural and human—while his wife Penelope fends off would-be suitors desperate to take the throne.
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ridiculous 3 hour introduction
- By Anonymous on 12-02-2020
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- 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
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, Peter Jones - introduction, E. V. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance16
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, E. V. Rieu - translator, D. C. H. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...
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Brilliant narration
- By Eleanor Lawson on 27-05-2020
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The Iliad
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2020
- Language: English
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Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey
- Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
- By: Gillian Cross
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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When first published, Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention for the quality of the writing. Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes two of the greatest stories in the world come alive for children in her strong, clear, deceptively simple retellings, which are faithful to the spirit and structure of Homer’s epic poems, and this new bind-up in a friendly format comes complete with an introduction.
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Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey
- Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance15
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The Iliad is one of the most enduring creations of Western Civilization and was originally written to be recited or chanted to the accompaniment of various instruments. Properly performed, this work today is just as meaningful, just as powerful and just as entertaining as it was in the ninth century B.C.,and it casts its spell upon modern listeners with the same raw intensity as it did upon the people of ancient times.
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Where’s the Trojan horse?
- By Jan on 04-11-2018
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2009
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon.
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2010
- Language: English
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Homer: The Ultimate Collection
- The Iliad | The Oddessy
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Arc
- Length: 35 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer is one of the most important figures in ancient Greek literature, believed to have lived in the 8th century BC. He is most famous for his epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are considered to be the founding works of Western literature. The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War, focusing on the hero Achilles, while the Odyssey recounts the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus as he attempts to return home after the war. Both works are celebrated for their vivid storytelling, complex characters, and profound exploration of human nature.
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Homer: The Ultimate Collection
- The Iliad | The Oddessy
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Arc
- Length: 35 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2023
- Language: English
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Homer and His Iliad
- By: Robin Lane Fox
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry. Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the poem, its values, implicit and explicit, its characters, its women, its gods and even its horses. He argues repeatedly for its beautiful observation and addresses its parallel use of what is, to us, the natural world.
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A terrific experience
- By Henry Tilney on 01-03-2025
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Homer and His Iliad
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2023
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- The Foundational Epic of Western Literature-A Timeless Saga of the Trojan War, Divine Intervention, and the Tragic Rage of Achilles
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Peter McGiffen
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered why the rage of a single man could doom an entire civilization? The Iliad is the ultimate testament to the glory and misery of the human condition. Set during the final year of the Trojan War, this foundational epic captures the moment the invincible Greek army begins to crumble—not from enemy swords, but from the internal strife of their own leaders. When the proud warrior Achilles is slighted by his commander, his withdrawal from the fight shifts the tides of war.
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The Iliad
- The Foundational Epic of Western Literature-A Timeless Saga of the Trojan War, Divine Intervention, and the Tragic Rage of Achilles
- Narrated by: Peter McGiffen
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2026
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Allen Mandelbaum - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.
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Excellent narrator
- By nUser on 29-08-2024
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2009
- Language: English
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Iliad & Odyssey - The Great Homer Box Set
- By: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 29 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Iliad depicts the terrible and long-drawn out siege of Troy, the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the interactions between Olympian Gods and humans, remains among one of the classic campaigns and the heroism and treachery of the combatants have been unmatched in song and story. The Odyssey is the first and quite possibly the greatest adventure story of all time. After the long hardships of the Trojan War, Odysseus is on his way home.
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Iliad & Odyssey - The Great Homer Box Set
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 29 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2026
- Language: English
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Homer: The Iliad
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word. While the heroes fight before the walls of Troy the gods have also drawn up battle lines, and it is their disagreements as much as the heroes' efforts which will decide the conflict. Despite the poem's antiquity, the very real, human qualities of the protagonists and their dilemmas make The Iliad immediately accessible.
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Homer: The Iliad
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2010
- Language: English
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