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The Story of Siegfried
by James Baldwin
Available on: Audio Download
The Story of Siegfried is James Baldwin's retelling of ancient yet perpetually popular Norse and Germanic tales about the hero Siegfried.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer.
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Beowulf
by Francis Gummere
Available on: Audio Download
Beowulf, the epic tale of adventure that follows Beowulf as he battles Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and later becomes king.
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Available on: Audio Download
An impoverished young man named Aladdin is recruited by a sorcerer to retrieve a lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave.
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Dante in Translation
by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande).
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Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
by John R. Wallace
Available on: Audio Download
This course surveys many of the best recognized works of poetry, prose and theater of premodern Japan between the 8th through 17th centuries.
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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Available on: Audio Download
Told and retold until 300 years after his death, Aesop's Fables, when finally put to paper have since been translated, studied and acted out many times over to the general enjoyment of millions of people...
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Xenophon's Anabasis
by Xenophon
Available on: Audio Download
This is Xenophon's account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role.
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The Works of Tacitus, Volume 1
by Tacitus
Available on: Audio Download
The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough remains to provide a good sense of Tacitus's political and moral philosophy.
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The Symposium
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download
The Symposium is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows.
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