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Beowulf
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
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 Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
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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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.6 Stars)
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 Odyssey
by Homer
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating:  (4.5 Stars)
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 Adventures of Odysseus
by Benedict Flynn
Formats: Audio CD ($16.18) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes...
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Beowulf
by Unknown
Formats: Digital Download ($11.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English.
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Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Formats: Digital Download ($16.50)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
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 Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Formats: Audio CD ($15.98) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
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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The Iliad
by Homer
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Average Rating: (2.2 Stars)
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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Greek Gods
by William Smith
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (0.1 Stars)
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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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Formats: Audio CD ($11.98)
Aesop's wonderful and amusing animal characters, which take on human-like qualities, have delighted the young and old for centuries.
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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Formats: Digital 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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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Formats: Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($15.29)
Over 2500 years old, Aesop's memorable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers.
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The Animals Could Talk
by Heather Forest
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Aesop was a storyteller and slave who lived 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. Because of his humble position in society, Aesop could not speak his thoughts openly.
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Beowulf
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Beowulf
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
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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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by David Damrosch
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette ($19.95)
The oldest surviving fragments of the Babylonian epic we now call Gilgamesh date back to the 18th century—the 18th century before the Christian era, that is, more than 3,700 years ago.
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The Canterbury Tales II
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Formats: Audio CD ($15.98) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values.
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The Canterbury Tales III
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives a frame story, written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another...
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Chaucer
by Peter Ackroyd
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.
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Dao De Jing
by Lao Tzu
Formats: Digital Download ($13.75)
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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The Death of Arthur
by Sir Thomas Malory
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is one of the great legends of Western civilization. Storytellers and poets down the centuries have returned repeatedly...
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
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 Epic of Gilgamesh
by Dr. David Neiman
Formats: 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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The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Formats: Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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