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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The Epic of Gilgamesh relates the tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings. Gilgamesh was first inscribed in cuneiform writing on clay tablets by an unknown author during the Sumerian era and has been described as one of the greatest works of literature in the recounting of mankind's unending quest for immortality.
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- By Duncan Macfarlane on 25-06-2022
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
- By: Scott McGill - translator, Susannah Wright - translator, Emily Wilson - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Emily Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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With a rich and informative introduction from Emily Wilson, maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, genealogies, extensive notes, and helpful summaries of each book, this gorgeous edition of Rome’s founding poem will capture the imaginations and stir the souls of a new generation of listeners.
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The Aeneid
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Emily Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-08-2025
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn
- By: Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment...
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The Odyssey review
- By Steve Ringer on 14-06-2025
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The Odyssey
- A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Sonnets
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds." For centuries these wonderfully crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love, and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.
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The perfect reading of a perfect read
- By M. R. Kaspar on 22-11-2024
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The Sonnets
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2000
- Language: English
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Beowulf
- By: Michael Alexander, uncredited, Michael Alexander - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson, Roy McMillan
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Royce Pierreson, star of Line of Duty, Our Girl and The Witcher. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Alexander. Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic...
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Beowulf
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson, Roy McMillan
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Iliad. Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy starring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey.
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2019
- Language: English
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- By: Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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The major texts of Western culture are a gateway to wisdom that can widen your views on self and society in enduring ways. And now you can examine its most important works - whether drama, poetry, or narrative - in this series of 64 penetrating lectures that reveal astonishing common ground.
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Series: The Great Courses: Western Literature
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- 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 Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are some of the finest poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a unique voice in American poetry. She is known for her short poems, full of acute observations, and deft use of language. This careful but imaginative selection shows the remarkable variety she produced, despite the miniature nature of her medium.
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Simply brilliant
- By Lee on 04-02-2024
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The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2008
- Language: English
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Tao Te Ching
- By: Lao Tzu, D. C. Lau
- Narrated by: Jason Reel
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Tao Te Ching, attributed to the ancient Chinese sage Lao Tzu, is a foundational text of Taoist philosophy and one of the most translated works in world literature. Composed of 81 brief, poetic chapters, the book offers timeless wisdom on living in harmony with the Tao—the natural way or path of the universe.
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Tao Te Ching
- Narrated by: Jason Reel
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2025
- Language: English
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150 Most Famous Poems
- Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and many more
- By: Poetry House
- Narrated by: Samuel Casey
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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"150 Most Famous Poems: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and Many More" is a timeless anthology that brings together some of the most celebrated and influential poems in the English language.
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150 Most Famous Poems
- Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and many more
- Narrated by: Samuel Casey
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2024
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Metamorphoses
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2008
- Language: English
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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, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Kelli Winkler, Mark Bowen
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This carefully selected collection contains: The Odyssey ; The Works and Days ; Theogony ; The Complete Poems of Sappho ; Medea ; Antigone ; Agamemnon ; The Choephori ; Eumenides.
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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
- 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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The Aeneid
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization. Within the brooding and melancholy atmosphere of Virgil's pious masterpiece lies the mythic story of Aeneas and his flight from burning Troy, taking with him across the Mediterranean the survivors of the Greek onslaught. Aeneas, after many travails and adventures, including a love affair with Dido Queen of Carthage and a visit to the underworld to see his father, ends up in Italy.
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The Aeneid
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2004
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Rumi
- Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
- By: Jalalu’l-Din Rumi
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent years the stirring, unforgettable poetry of Jalālu’l-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273), the great Sūfi teacher and the greatest mystical poet of Iran, has gained tremendous popularity in the western world. Although he died over 700 years ago, his poetry is timeless. In the best modern translations, the passion and playfulness of his words reach across the ages to communicate themselves to people today with an undiluted fervor and excitement.
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Selected Poems of Rumi
- Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2025
- Language: English
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Thomas Merton on the Poetry and Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
- By: Thomas Merton, Michael W. Higgins
- Narrated by: Thomas Merton, Michael W. Higgins
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Before entering the monastery, Thomas Merton studied English at Columbia University and taught literature at St. Bonaventure University. His passion for literature never faded, and now, you have the rare opportunity to take Thomas Merton as your guide in this set of his outstanding, remastered talks. Delivered to the community at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1965 and 1966, Merton’s talks examine one of his favorite poets: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
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Thomas Merton on the Poetry and Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Thomas Merton, Michael W. Higgins
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-08-2017
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: Sebastian Lockwood - adaptation
- Narrated by: Sebastian Lockwood
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A new version of The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sebastian Lockwood. This is the story of Gilgamesh, King of Kings, who brought back knowledge from before the flood - who loved and lost his companion Enkidu and had to find out why we die. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets over 4,000 years ago, in what is today Baghdad Iraq - the Biblical Garden of Eden between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Lockwood gives a passionate reading from a text that faithfully follows the original.
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Hard to listen to
- By Anonymous on 22-12-2025
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Narrated by: Sebastian Lockwood
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2013
- Language: English
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Parzival
- By: Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Jessie L. Weston - translator
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Parzival is a romantic poem written by Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. Regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Middle Ages, the romance was the most popular vernacular verse narrative in medieval Germany. Dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, the poem tells the story of the Arthurian hero Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail. The most notable elements of the work are an emphasis on the importance of humility, compassion, and sympathy. Richard Wagner based his famous opera Parsifal on Parzival.
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Test review
- By Luisa on 13-10-2020
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Parzival
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Series: Parzival, Book 1-2
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2019
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In the heat of the Trojan War, the Greek army’s greatest warrior, Achilles, withdraws from battle after a bitter dispute with King Agamemnon. As the war spirals into chaos, heroes rise and fall, divine forces meddle in mortal affairs, and honor is tested on every side. But when tragedy strikes, Achilles must confront his rage—and his destiny.
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2025
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, Benedict Cumberbatch, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman & Benedict Cumberbatch. ‘My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...’ So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his...
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bertie Carvel, Mary Wimbush, Adjoa Andoh, Janet McTeer, Frances Barber, Danny Webb, Cheryl Campbell, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2005
- Language: English
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