Ancient Poetry

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    • Written by: Ovid
    • Narrated by: Barry Kraft
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2008-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation....

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    • Written by: Apollonius Rhodius
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2000-03-16
    • Language: English
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    • Argonautika is the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece...

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    • Selected Poems
    • Written by: William Blake
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2006-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Poet, artist, and mystic, Blake wrote, "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." Create he did....

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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • Written by: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2014-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This collection contains more than 140 of Ryokan's poems, with selections of his art, and of the very funny anecdotes about him....

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    • Give Me Life
    • Written by: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
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    • Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

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    • The Story of Odysseus
    • Written by: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
    • Narrated by: Anthony Heald
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2008-12-01
    • Language: English
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    • The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars....

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    • Written by: Henrik Ibsen
    • Narrated by: Françoise Cadol
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-21
    • Language: French
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    • Dans cette maison où la femme est et n'est qu'une poupée, les hommes sont des pantins, veules et pleutres. Sans doute Nora incarne-t-elle une sorte de...

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    • The Greek Myths Reimagined
    • Written by: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....

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    • Written by: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-22
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • Written by: Virgil
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2006-11-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....

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    • Written by: Alice Horton - translator
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • One of the finest German medieval epic poems, The Lay of the Nibelungs is perhaps best known now as one of the principal sources for Wagner’s four-part music drama The Ring of the Nibelung....

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    • Written by: Homer
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2003-12-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey....

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    • Written by: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2009-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

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    • Written by: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War....

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    • The Fitzgerald Translation
    • Written by: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2014-09-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right....

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    • The Fitzgerald Translation
    • Written by: Homer, D. S. Carne-Ross, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2014-09-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems....

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    • Written by: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2010-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....

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