Ancient Classics

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    • Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. This nonfiction narrative presents the tales of the 48 classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: John Milton, John Leonard
    • Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-20
    • Language: English
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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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    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world....

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    • Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
    • By: Gillian Cross
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes two of the greatest stories in the world come alive for children in her strong, clear, deceptively simple retellings, which are faithful to the spirit and structure of Homer’s epic poems....

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    • By: Suetonius
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-11
    • Language: English
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    • As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history....

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-10
    • Language: English
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    • One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-12
    • Language: English
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    • Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy....

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    • A Plain Translation
    • By: Ken Liu
    • Narrated by: BD Wong
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Introducing a new translation of Laozi’s classic work that makes the intimidating approachable and the complex comprehensible....

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    • By: Aeschylus
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-10
    • Language: English
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    • When a jealous Zeus discovers that Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison....

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    • By: Aesop
    • Narrated by: Samantha Worthen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • These classic fables use simple allegories to convey universal truths....

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    • The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes
    • By: Thomas Bulfinch
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond....

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    • By: Disney Books
    • Narrated by: Disney Publishing Worldwide
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • An army of Huns led by the ferocious Shan-Yu has invaded China. The Chinese Imperial Army must fight! Mulan, a young woman desperate to bring honor to her family, disguises herself as a male warrior in order to spare her father....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Mary Beard, John Henderson
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature....

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