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Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Socrates questions Ion, an actor, about his ability to interpret the poetry of Homer. In the Meno, the topic is whether goodness can be taught. Both dialogues provide more questions than answers.
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference...
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Plato's Phaedrus
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($12.00)
Phaedrus treats the nature of love, mythical visions of human nature and destiny, and the essence of beauty. It ends with a penetrating discussion of speaking, writing, and the love of wisdom.
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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
By near universal agreement, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. This may come as a surprise, because Dante is best known for the Inferno, the first cantica of the Commedia, which is, by any standard, fairly grim in some respects.
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Classical Mythology: The Romans
by Peter Meineck
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE.
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Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($14.00) | Audio CD
Gorgias of Leontini, who teaches rhetoric, is in Athens, to instruct potential leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house where Socrates questions him in his usual way.
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Plato's Symposium
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD
The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house and talk about love.
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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
With an abreviated but keen sense of observation Aesop tells stories that never attempt to portray the real world; yet within this fantastic setting he gives us a vision of the human condition that still provides deep insight to this day.
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Greek Gods
by William Smith
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Here we present 14 brief audio sketches of each of the major Greek Deities; providing the listener with information on lineage, characteristics, historical significance and artistic renditions.
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Beowulf
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 AD, tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
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Homer's Odyssey is the thrilling and moving tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war. For ten years he experiences storms, shipwrecks, and...
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette
Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic...
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Dao De Jing
by Lao Zi
Available on: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD
Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology resembles that of Lao Zi. Ancient philosophy in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of human existence as East meets West.
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47) | Audio CD ($13.46)
Zen is a way of life, a religion, and an aesthetic, as well as one of the oldest and most profound religious...
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The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
In an authoritative performance by actor Richard Bebb, two sections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented in Old English, under the advisement of the leading living scholar on Chaucerian pronunciation, Professor Derek Brewer.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($21.58) | Audio Cassette
The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature.
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio Download ($29.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($79.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50)
Homer has been hailed as the father of all poetry, and The Iliad has survived as a masterpiece of all time.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download ($4.87) | Audio Cassette
The Odyssey - the greatest adventure story of them all - is packed with excitement: monsters...
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($26.08)
Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio Download ($65.58) | Audio CD ($65.58)
Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. This unabridged box set contains the trilogy of The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, plus a biography of Dante.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download ($68.58) | Audio CD
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word.
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The Pardoner's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
These three tales from The Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain’s foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer.
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The Arabian Nights
by Various Authors
Available on: Audio Download ($23.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including “Sinbad,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “Aladdin,” “The Talking Bird,” and “The Fisherman and the Genie.”
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