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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern audiences.
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What beautiful poetry
- By Dennis Sommers on 03-09-25
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, David Warner, Full Cast, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall684
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Performance602
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Story599
Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem. Inferno: Thirty-five year old Dante finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. Hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet...
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Very good
- By Andyjn on 06-01-16
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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, David Warner, Full Cast, Hattie Morahan, John Hurt
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-09-14
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance30
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Story30
Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language. Remarkably enough, they were written near the end of John Milton's amazing life, a bold testimonial to his mental powers in old age. And, since he had gone completely blind in 1652, 15 years prior to Paradise Lost, he dictated it and all his other works to his daughter.
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Superb
- By H Ireland on 12-05-13
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-10-08
- 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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Overall30
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Performance21
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Story21
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: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
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Homer: The Iliad
- By Phoebe's mum on 12-06-20
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-07-19
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata
- By: Vyasa, John D. Smith - translator
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance5
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian...
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The Mahabharata
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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The Inferno
- By: Dante, Robert Hollander - translator, Jean Hollander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us...
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A must read (or listen)
- By Lima Speight on 03-02-20
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The Inferno
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- By: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall219
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Performance203
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Story203
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its...
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Splendid!
- By George Wiltshire on 05-08-17
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-09-14
- 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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Overall60
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Performance36
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Story36
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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Magical!
- By Ehab on 16-04-09
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The Aeneid
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-12-04
- Language: English
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The Faerie Queene
- By: Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 33 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement. The first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error....
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A very useful version
- By Stephen on 20-04-17
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The Faerie Queene
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 33 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-09-15
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over his fate, leaving the Ithacans to believe that he has died. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
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Terrible narration
- By Dr C A fraser-Mood on 08-07-20
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-09-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance106
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Story105
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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Between 'The Archers' & 'Hitchhiker's Guide...'!
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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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: 15-04-05
- Language: English
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Ramayana
- By: William Buck
- Narrated by: Ram Dass
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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This story of Lord Rama — the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu— i s a wondrous tale of cosmic adventure that immerses the listener in a world of heroes, gods, and demons.
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Love everything by Ram Dass
- By Nicola Thomas on 27-07-22
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- By: Bernard O'Donoghue, Bernard O'Donoghue - translator
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is narrated by Singer/Songwriter and folk-punk icon Frank Turner. Frank Turner has released eight solo studio albums, the most recent of which was No Man's Land, which contained songs celebrating some of the most important women throughout history...
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A great story well narrated
- By John on 21-02-22
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: English
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Svanur Thorkelsson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible’s production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible’s Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered ‘England’s first native audiobook’.
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Fabulous rendition
- By R. J. The on 21-03-21
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Beowulf
- Narrated by: Svanur Thorkelsson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- By: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." --...
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance29
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Story29
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about AD 1,000, Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior of southern Scandinavia, in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorizes the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result, he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce dragon.
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Timeless
- By mr b t adams on 03-02-16
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Beowulf
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, of which the written versions are dated to the 8th century BCE. Chronicling events in the Greek Bronze Age, this magnificent pair of poems forms the cornerstone of Western literature. If The Iliad is a classic war story, The Odyssey is symbolic of the individual’s journey through life.
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Weirdly read
- By Beeky on 28-03-21
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-12-19
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, Part 2: Historical Tradition
- By: Ferdowsi
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare to be transported into the thunderous sweep of Persian history. This section of Shahnameh (Chapters 16-27 in Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings) moves from myth to history, chronicling the dramatic rise of the Sassanian dynasty and its eventual fall. Through masterful storytelling, the epic brings to life royal ambition, political intrigue, heroic resistance, and cultural transformation—culminating in the Arab conquest of Iran in the seventh century. Performed by award-winning voice actor Marc Thompson, this performative audiobook places you at the heart of the action.
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, Part 2: Historical Tradition
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- 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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Overall16
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Performance12
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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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Dodgy narrotor
- By Yeet on 27-05-20
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-09-19
- Language: English
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