Showing titles in Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature
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From 'Paradise Lost'
- A Dozen Red Roses
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 1 min
- Unabridged
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A short section from Milton's epic poem, expressing how much sweeter the world is when you are with the one you love, read by Jenny Agutter.
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classic touch
- By Velveteen on 25-08-25
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From 'Paradise Lost'
- A Dozen Red Roses
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 06-02-07
- Language: English
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Ilíada (Ilíada y Odisea 1)
- Ilíada y Odisea 1
- By: Homero, Fernando Gutiérrez - translator
- Narrated by: Pedro Casablanc, Elsa Veiga
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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La Ilíada es el poema más antiguo de la literatura occidental y está considerada como una de las grandes obras de nuestra tradición. Esta epopeya griega, que, como la Odisea, ha sido atribuida a Homero, es un canto al glorioso y trágico desenlace de la guerra de Troya. En la Antigüedad se consideraba que este poema se basaba en la historia real y que los personajes que aparecían en él eran un modelo de comportamiento y heroísmo.
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Ilíada (Ilíada y Odisea 1)
- Ilíada y Odisea 1
- Narrated by: Pedro Casablanc, Elsa Veiga
- Series: Ilíada y Odisea [Iliad & Odyssey], Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: Spanish
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An Ideal Husband
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Gutrecht, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver screen. This 1895 drama is eerily prescient, as it examines the plight of a promising politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Oscar Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us.
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Brilliant!
- By Carla Ribeiro Oleiro on 19-04-19
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An Ideal Husband
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Gutrecht, Martin Jarvis, Robert Machray, Miriam Margolyes, Alfred Molina, Jim Norton, Yeardley Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 14-09-06
- Language: English
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Since You're Mortal . . .
- Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays
- By: James Romm
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed classicist James Romm translates surviving pieces of timeless wisdom from the lost plays of ancient Athens. "The truly happy man ought to stay at home." "Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love." "Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes." These quotes―and hundreds of...
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Since You're Mortal . . .
- Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-05-26
- Language: English
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The Allegory of the Cave
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This simplistic and ingenious allegory from one of the fathers of Western philosophy casts light on society’s naiveté and ignorance.
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Plato, Clever philosopher.
- By ludwig on 31-05-22
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The Allegory of the Cave
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 18-02-19
- Language: English
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Hedda Gabler
- By: Henrik Ibsen
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Michael Maloney, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middle class tedium stretching ahead when they return from their honeymoon. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a ménage a trois. Then the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg, a former flame, arrives to rival her husband for an academic post.
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Translation Differences
- By Sophie on 06-01-11
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Hedda Gabler
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Michael Maloney, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-02-03
- Language: English
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The Peloponnesian War
- By: Thucydides
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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Compiled by Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general during the Peloponnesian War, The History of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) is considered to be one of the first scholarly historical works ever written.
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A great history let down by poor narration.
- By John G on 17-08-18
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The Peloponnesian War
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-05-17
- Language: English
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The Love Poems
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is best known for his epic poem Metamorphoses, a collection of myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. His works continue to be widely read and admired, and he is regarded as one of the most significant poets of ancient Rome. Ovid’s love poems are both brilliant and evocative. In Amores, the romantic mysteriousness of elegiac love-poetry is exploded by his witty and ironic treatment of the form. Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris both lay down the rules for the game of love, which both sexes can play.
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The Love Poems
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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Richard Burton's Hamlet
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, a full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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This production of Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Richard Burton, was recorded in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and with the actors performing just as they would if you went to see a production tonight. "The particular intensity and nerves of this is probably the same kind of thing that excites an audience in live theater," says Richard Burton.
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The finest noise ever created by vocal chords?
- By Pete UK on 08-04-13
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Richard Burton's Hamlet
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, a full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-06-01
- Language: English
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable...
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A must for anyone with an interest in Persian culture
- By Harriet on 17-01-23
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Antigone
- By: Jean Anouilh
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre resistance and by Germans as an affirmation of authority.
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Gripping and credible performance
- By Dot Marshall-Gent on 23-12-13
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Antigone
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-12-05
- Language: English
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Catullus’ Bedspread
- The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one...
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It's a Classic...
- By D. Menashy on 10-03-16
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Catullus’ Bedspread
- The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- By: Homer, D. S. Carne-Ross - introduction, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could...
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Perfect
- By Rupert on 06-01-17
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The Odyssey
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-09-14
- Language: English
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La Divina Commedia
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Se è vero, come dice Borges, che la Divina Commedia è il dono più grande che la letteratura possa offrire a ciascun lettore, è altrettanto vero che l'ascolto di una interpretazione ad alta voce di questo capolavoro può trasformarsi in una esperienza unica, un'occasione preziosa per scoprire emozioni e sentimenti racchiusi in un capolavoro che è ormai al di fuori di qualsiasi epoca.
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La Divina Commedia
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-09-19
- Language: Italian
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Macbeth
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Performance22
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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A great play, poorly performed/recorded
- By Jklaw on 31-12-17
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Macbeth
- Narrated by: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 31-12-00
- Language: English
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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal
- On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life
- By: George Tanner
- Narrated by: Isaac Mantelli
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is a collection of Stoic sayings organized to allow daily reference and inspiration. The Stoic advice covered in this volume runs the gambit from personal problems, to interpersonal relationships, to advice on work and productivity, to dealing with the hand of fate.
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serves as a reflection
- By Georgina Preston on 23-07-19
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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal
- On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life
- Narrated by: Isaac Mantelli
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-10-18
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- The Story of Odysseus
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, COMING JULY 2026—WITNESS THE LEGEND REBORN The original adventure story, The Odyssey continues to captivate and inspire nearly three millennia after it was written. A towering epic of adventure, cunning, and the longing for home, The Odyssey follows the perilous...
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The Odyssey
- The Story of Odysseus
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy, Luke Erlenbuch
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran: Deluxe Edition is a rich anthology that gathers the timeless poetry, prose, and philosophical essays of Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, whose work explores love, spirituality, wisdom, and the human experience with lyrical depth and insight.
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Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy, Luke Erlenbuch
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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The Kalevala
- By: Elias Lönnrot
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity and the sense of nationality that led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. Beginning with the traditional Finnish creation myth, the Kalevala branches out into stories of the creation of the earth, plants, creatures, and the sky. There are many stories of, romance, kidnapping, seduction, and magical spell casting and singing.
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Difficult to understand if not part of the culture
- By Sylvester Jønsson on 15-07-23
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The Kalevala
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-01-20
- Language: English
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The Inferno of Dante
- A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky - translator
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book...
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Not the best version of this book.
- By Zoot on 18-02-17
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The Inferno of Dante
- A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück
- Series: The Divine Comedy, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-07-14
- Language: English
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