Ancient Classics

Medea es una obra teatral en la que el personaje principal, Medea, mata a sus hijos para vengarse de su esposo, quien la ha dejado por otra mujer. A pesar de lo terrible de este acto, se ha identificado a este personaje con la mujer enganada. El analisis de esta obra ha generado muchas controversias. Esta es la obra mas famosa de Eurpides.

The Persians: A Translation from Aeschylus There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in the Persians by Aeschylus, who fought in the Athenian triumph at Salamis, where the Persian fleet was rammed and wrecked.

We begin with Book V, Odysseus weeping on Calyspo's Island, and follow his adventures through to his return to Ithaca and Penelope. This version of Homer's Odyssey was created over a 14-year period of performing the great epic. When it came time to record this version for audiobook, I realized there was no text: It lived in memory. So I had to write out a 38-page poem from memory. Then I used that text as a performance script and while reading it found myself constantly editing as my spoken word insisted on changes that sharpened the sound.

In The Trachinian Tragedy, better known as the Women of Trachis, the wife of Herakles, Deianeira, finds she has a rival in the house for her husband's affection. The consequences of her counteraction are incredible. In this faithful translation, F. L. Light attempts to write as good a play in English as the original in Greek. F. L. Light has also translated Antigone of Sophocles.

Whether it's the adventures of Greek gods and goddesses or Norse trickster tales, we all love to hear a good story. Best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis gives readers a taste of these enchanting myths and the diverse people who tell them. In his trademark question-and-answer style peppered with entertaining sidebars and quotes, he also shows how almost every civilization's mythology shares common themes.

Odnoobraznuju zhizn' provincial'nogo gorodka Verhopol'e narushaet priezd stroitelej zheleznoj dorogi - inzhenerov Cherkuna i Cyganova. Na smenu patriarhal'nomu varvarstvu gorodskogo golovy Redozubova jeti "poborniki civilizacii" nesut novoe varvarstvo: moral'nuju degradaciju i zhestokoe ravnodushie k cheloveku. Potrebovalos' nemnogo vremeni, chtoby obnaruzhilis' plody ih razrushitel'noj dejatel'nosti.

Spektakl MHAT im. Gorkogo. 20 fevralja 1598 g. Uzhe mesjac, kak Boris Godunov zatvorilsja vmeste so svoej sestroj v monastyre, pokinuv «vse mirskoe» i otkazyvajas' prinjat' moskovskij prestol. Narod ob#jasnjaet otkaz Godunova venchat'sja na carstvo v nuzhnom dlja Borisa duhe: «Ego strashit sijanie prestola».

A versão em áudio desta descrição da Guerra de Tróia é rica em elementos sonoros ligados às batalhas, à natureza, às manifestações dos deuses e à musicalidade grega. Com a participação de 16 profissionais de voz, entre atores, narradores e dubladores, que interpretam 34 personagens, além da voz do narrador.Vozes: Angela Couto (Atena); Barros Batista (Antíloco, Hermes, Dólon e Glauco); Carol Leiderfarb (Hera); Di Ramon (rei da Lícia, Menelau, soldado troiano e Príamo).

Spektakl' "Otcy i deti" po motivam odnoimennogo romana russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Konflikt pokolenij. Glavnye geroi Arkadij Kirsanov i Evgenij Bazarov - absoljutno raznye po mirovozzreniju ljudi. V to vremja, kak pervyj bolee sklonen opirat'sja na mnenie starshego pokolenija, vtoroj sovershenno otricaet ego. I korit svoego prijatelja za izlishnjuju mjagkotelost', schitaja chto tot nahoditsja pod sil'nym vlijaniem svoih otca i djadi, vremja kotoryh, po ego mneniju, proshlo…

"Qu'est-ce qu'une femme ? Une déesse mortelle. Une déesse ? Une femme immortelle." Qui parle ? Le Poète (inutile, autrefois, de préciser "Homère"), dans l'Iliade, notre naissance en littérature. Loin d'être la faiblesse des hommes et des dieux, la femme et la déesse sont la force du chant : tout part de la déesse invoquée ; tout remonte à Hélène, la femme désirée, selon le vouloir d'Aphrodite. Elles sont là, reines, mères et filles, sœurs et épouses, amantes ou solitaires. Inséparables des hommes et des dieux.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963) was an archaeologist, anthropologist, Egyptologist, historian, and the first woman to serve as a lecturer in archaeology in Britain. Ancient Egypt Legends (1920) contains 11 stories based on ancient Egyptian legends. Each legend is stylistically adapted to English but in a way that sticks close to the original.

The Victorians were obsessed with Egyptology and mummies. It was during the second half of the 19th century that many of the most significant archeological finds were made in Egypt, and stories of the revenge of the mummies on anyone raiding their tombs, stealing their treasures or unwrapping their corpses abounded. This collection brings together the best and scariest short stories of the period, featuring vengeance-seeking mummies, bandaged zombies, pharaonic ghosts and ancient curses.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known comedies and is arguably one of his most beloved plays. The play tells the tale of the misadventures of the people gathering to participate in their marriage of the duke of Athens and Hippolyta, former queen of the Amazons.

The Phaedrus by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. It was probably written around 370 BC, at about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium. Ostensibly about love, the discussion in the dialogue focuses on the art of rhetoric and how it ought to be practiced. The dialogue appears in the direct words of Socrates and Phaedrus, without an introduction.

Presents the famous Socratic dialogues as presented by his most noted disciple, Plato. Designed to encourage a discussion of age-old philosophical questions concerning the meaning of life and death. This is an abridged edition of the dialogues.

古希腊神话记载的特洛伊战争，历时10年，生灵涂炭。这场残酷的特洛伊战争，究竟有着怎样的来龙去脉呢？本有声书通过生动的语言呈现了这次军事远征的奇特故事。…… 古希臘神話記載的特洛伊戰爭，歷時10年，生靈塗炭。這場殘酷的特洛伊戰爭，究竟有著怎樣的來龍去脈呢？本有聲書通過生動的語言呈現了這次軍事遠征的奇特故事。

An original recording of one of Oscar Wilde's comedic classics and a precise satire of Britain's upper classes. At a gathering at Hunstanton Chase, the young Gerald Arbuthnot has been given a rare opportunity to make something of himself by the cavalier Lord Illingworth, but a chance meeting between his mother Mrs. Arbuthnot and Lord Illingworth reveals that there's more behind the offer than Gerald knows.

A fickle public is fully supportive of Caesar's would-be assassins - until they actually do assassinate him. Discover wher political back-stabbing really got its start in this timeless tale of murder and revenge.

After Eustace Borlsover’s blind uncle dies, the nephew receives in the mail the uncle's severed hand as part of his inheritance. It soon emerges that the hand is alive in some sense, intelligent and very mobile. Eustace and his secretary immediately assume the hand is evil, but to be honest it seems more mischievous than malevolent. Until, of course, Eustace nails the hand to a board and sticks it in a safe for several months, whereupon the hand seeks vengeance and a final showdown between men and appendage ensues.