Ancient Poetry

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2010
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2012
    • 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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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-2014
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Virgil, John Dryden - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2010
    • Language: English
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    • After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, the poet Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honor the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas, Augustus's legendary ancestor....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Llewelyn Morgan
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Llewelyn Morgan explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling....

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    • By: Homer, Allen Mandelbaum - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures....

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    • Give Me Life
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2018
    • 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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    • By: Frances B. Grummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2012
    • Language: English
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    • Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is an epic poem that traces the exploits of the titular hero....

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    • By: Homer
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2003
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • By: John Milton
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, David Raeburn
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: John Milton, John Leonard
    • Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

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

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    • By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The great legacy of The Iliad is itsshattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

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    • By: Gerald J. Davis
    • Narrated by: John Hanks
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 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....

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