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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Dr. David Neiman
Credits: Digital Download
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 Republic
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
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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The Odyssey
by Homer
Credits: Audio CD
If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Credits: Digital Download
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
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
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 Gorgias
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
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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Plato's Symposium
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
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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The Odyssey
by Homer
Credits: Digital Download
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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Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
Credits: Audio CD
Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology.
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Beowulf
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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 Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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 Tzu
Credits: Digital Download
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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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Credits: Digital Download
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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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Credits: Digital Download
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
by Homer
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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
by Dante Alighieri
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
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 General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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Beowulf
Credits: Audio CD
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" comes to life in this gripping rendition that reminds listeners that the work was truly meant to be heard not read.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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
by Virgil
Credits: Audio CD
Fagles's translations of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Now, the much-anticipated new translation of Virgil's epic poem from the award-winning translator reintroduces "The Aeneid" to a whole new generation.
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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 Aeneid
by Virgil
Credits: Audio CD
Robert Fitzgerald's magnificent translation of Virgil's epic poem was a major literary event at its release in 1983; today it is an acknowledged masterpiece.
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Greek Gods
by William Smith
Credits: Digital Download
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
Credits: Audio CD
Read in Old English, this collection of poetry includes selections from "Beowulf," the most well-known epic poem in Englands history, as well as other classics such as "Caedmons Hymn, The Dream of the Road, The Wanderer, The Battle of Brunan Burg" and "A Wifes Lament."
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