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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The bright eyed goddess of translation does it again.
- By Hugh Brennan on 21-11-23
By: Homer, and others
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....
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Lives up to the hype!
- By KT on 25-07-20
By: John Milton, and others
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....
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Enjoyable but marred by mistakes in the narration.
- By L. J. W. Cych on 06-06-20
By: Ovid, and others
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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, John Hurt, David Warner, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem "Inferno"....
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Very good
- By Andyjn on 06-01-16
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Samuel Butler - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on his journey back to Ithica....
By: Homer, and others
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The bright eyed goddess of translation does it again.
- By Hugh Brennan on 21-11-23
By: Homer, and others
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....
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Lives up to the hype!
- By KT on 25-07-20
By: John Milton, and others
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....
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Enjoyable but marred by mistakes in the narration.
- By L. J. W. Cych on 06-06-20
By: Ovid, and others
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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, John Hurt, David Warner, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem "Inferno"....
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Very good
- By Andyjn on 06-01-16
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Samuel Butler - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on his journey back to Ithica....
By: Homer, and others
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The Odyssey (Dramatised)
- By: Homer, Simon Armitage - dramatisation
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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In a 20-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets, and ghosts....
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Between 'The Archers' & 'Hitchhiker's Guide...'!
- By Tim on 05-03-11
By: Homer, and others
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Selections from The Faerie Queene
- By: Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: John Moffatt
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English. The Faerie Queene combines...
By: Edmund Spenser
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The Mahabharata
- By: John D. Smith - translator
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
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The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....
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The Mahabharata and The Ramayana
- Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations Based on the Classic Indian Epics
- By: Jatinder Verma, Claudia Mayer, Amber Lone
- Narrated by: Paul Bhattacharjee, Sasha Behar, Raad Rawi, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Full-cast dramatised retellings of the two most important epic Sanskrit poems of ancient India....
By: Jatinder Verma, and others
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Paradise Regained
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve, and forced their departure from the Garden of Eden, here he sets out to tempt again.....
By: John Milton
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The Iliad
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the...
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Homer: The Iliad
- By Phoebe's mum on 12-06-20
By: Homer
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey....
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And his armour fell rattling around him...
- By P. Ward on 03-11-11
By: Homer
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The Inferno
- By: Dante, Robert Hollander - translator, Jean Hollander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....
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A must read (or listen)
- By Lima Speight on 03-02-20
By: Dante, and others
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The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Christopher Tolkien
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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First ever audio edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war....
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great but wished it contained all the book
- By Anonymous User on 31-03-23
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes, R. C. Seaton - translator, Nicolas Soames - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles....
By: Apollonius of Rhodes, and others
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The Canterbury Tales II
- Modern English Verse Translation
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Philip Madoc, Frances Jeater, John Rowe, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time....
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Can’t wait to hear the next tales.
- By A Moskow on 28-01-23
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Georgics
- By: Publius Vergilius Maro
- Narrated by: Cecil Day Lewis
- Length: 45 mins
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The Georgics was published in 29 BCE, and is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. Its a fascinating insight into rural life and farming of the time....
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The Song of Roland
- By: anonymous
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the year 778. The mighty French army, led by Emperor Charlemagne, confronts Saracen forces in the bloody Battle of Roncevaux Pass. In the course of this thrilling epic poem we follow the emperor’s hot-headed nephew Roland into battle....
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Amazing 🤩
- By Carla Ribeiro Oleiro on 10-03-23
By: anonymous
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The Canterbury Tales III
- Modern English Verse Translation
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Frank Ernest Hill - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy West, Charles Kay, Stephen Tompkinson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society....
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Just Wonderful
- By Janey May on 24-02-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- By: Bernard O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Composed during the 14th century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter....
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A great story well narrated
- By John on 21-02-22
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Parzival
- By: Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight Parzival for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and displays of true love....
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Stamina Pays Off!
- By NICK on 09-11-21
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The Art of Love
- By: Ovid, Rolfe Humphries - translator
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique....
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Good translation weird voice
- By Rebekah on 26-07-20
By: Ovid, and others
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The Faerie Queene
- By: Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 33 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry....
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A very useful version
- By Stephen on 20-04-17
By: Edmund Spenser
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Jason and the Argonauts
- By: Apollonios of Rhodes
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Often compared with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts is the only surviving poem from the Hellenistic period and was hugely influential on later literature, especially the Roman poetry of Virgil and Ovid....
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Dante's Inferno
- A Study on Part I of The Divine Comedy
- By: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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With Professor Esolen you will enter the terrible gates of Hell and progress level by infernal level to its diabolical depths. Professor Esolen places a special emphasis on the drama of the poem, leading you through each canto in succession....
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Wonderful
- By markj on 23-05-21
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Christopher Logue: War Music
- The Author’s Own Recording
- By: Christopher Logue
- Narrated by: Christopher Logue
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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War Music is a dramatic poem based on Homer’s Iliad. Logue worked on it for more than 40 years, and it was left incomplete at his death in 2011....
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Superb
- By Nigel on 09-07-23
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....
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Dull!
- By David on 13-06-14
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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Ramayana
- By: William Buck
- Narrated by: Ram Dass
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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This story of Lord Rama — the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu— i s a wondrous tale of cosmic adventure that immerses the listener in a world of heroes, gods, and demons....
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Love everything by Ram Dass
- By Anonymous User on 27-07-22
By: William Buck
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The Song of Roland
- By: Michael A. H. Newth - translator
- Narrated by: Greg Marston, Summe Williams, Julian DouglasSmith
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Song of Roland is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems....