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1.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Dr. David Neiman
Available on: Digital Download ($4.99)

Dr. Neiman interprets “The Epic of Gilgamesh” - the earliest dramatic epic poem composed about 5,000 years ago, which deals with problems affecting us today.
 
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Plato's Ion and Meno
Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.00)

Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle.
 
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Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic
by Plato
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($68.75)

Plato was a teacher who wrote in the dialogue form as a means of challenging his students to think deeply about fundamental questions. Consider this hypothesis: Plato wrote each book of The Republic to be performed by actors playing characters such as Socrates, Glaucon, Ademantus, Thrasymachus.
 
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Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium
by Plato
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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 to celebrate the success of his first tragedy.
 
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Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
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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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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($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 Decameron
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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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.
 
8.
Plato's Gorgias
Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
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Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art.
 
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The Odyssey
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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Beowulf
Beowulf
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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.
 
11.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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...
 
12.
Dao De Jing
Dao De Jing
by Lao Tzu
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These words, written 2500 years ago by Lao Zi resemble Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology. Ancient philosophy, both in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of the search for wisdom.
 
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
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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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The Iliad
The Iliad
by Homer
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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 Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($79.95) | Digital Download ($29.95) | MP3 CD

Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy.
 
16.
The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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
The Iliad
by Homer
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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 Aeneid
The Aeneid
by Virgil
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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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Greek Gods
Greek Gods
by William Smith
Available on: Digital 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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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($36.95) | MP3 CD

In this classic, the narrator tells of making the usual April pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury with thirty others.
 
21.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by Various Authors
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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.”
 
22.
The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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.
 
23.
The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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Abandon all hope you who enter here. Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages...
 
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Beowulf
Beowulf
by Unknown
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Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English.
 
25.
Greek Lives
Greek Lives
by Plutarch
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($33.58)

Written at the beginning of the second century, Plutarch's collection of accounts of the lives of noble Grecians is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time.

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