Bestsellers
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Death of a Salesman
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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Great Performance
- By Michael Bross on 08-01-23
By: Arthur Miller
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Julius Caesar
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording....
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good play, difficult to distinguish characters
- By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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If you be not mad, be gone
- By Darwin8u on 08-24-17
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag....
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Delightfully silly
- By Tad Davis on 09-12-11
By: Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny....
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Superb
- By Mark on 11-24-09
By: Sophocles
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....
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Good Collection
- By Anniebligh on 03-31-12
By: Oscar Wilde
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Death of a Salesman
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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Great Performance
- By Michael Bross on 08-01-23
By: Arthur Miller
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Julius Caesar
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording....
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good play, difficult to distinguish characters
- By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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If you be not mad, be gone
- By Darwin8u on 08-24-17
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag....
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Delightfully silly
- By Tad Davis on 09-12-11
By: Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny....
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Superb
- By Mark on 11-24-09
By: Sophocles
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....
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Good Collection
- By Anniebligh on 03-31-12
By: Oscar Wilde
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The Shakespeare Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems....
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Love Shakespeare, BUT…
- By Damian on 11-09-22
By: DK
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume....
By: Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Crackles with Fire
- By Aaron on 01-01-05
By: Sophocles
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Miss Julie by August Strindberg
- By: August Strindberg
- Narrated by: full cast, Amanda Friday, Ed Humpal, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Miss Julie is probably the most famous play by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater....
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melodramatic
- By Kim Bloomfield on 04-01-22
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Sophocles' The Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, are brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights....
By: Sophocles
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices....
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classic humor of suicide and murder
- By Paul Dion Brooks on 12-26-19
By: Sophocles
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Trifles
- By: Susan Glaspell
- Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett, Amy Madigan, Sam McMurray, and others
- Length: 28 mins
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Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband....
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Some lines are changed or added
- By Amazon Customer on 08-28-22
By: Susan Glaspell
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Poetics
- By: Aristotle, S. H. Butcher - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Dorse
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory in the West. This has been the traditional view for centuries....
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Meaning Lost
- By Will Nabors on 01-31-21
By: Aristotle, and others
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Pygmalion
- By: Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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Classroom Use
- By Kellee M. Lyons on 12-11-12
By: Bernard Shaw
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Faust: Parts I & II
- By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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Great great book
- By John A. on 09-15-21
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- By: Christopher Marlowe
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Christopher Marlowe's play about a man who sells his soul to the devil is not only one of the first of many works to explore this theme but also one of the most startling....
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Bad Recording
- By Angela on 03-14-16
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The George Bernard Shaw Collection
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Shirley Knight, Anne Heche, JoBeth Williams, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection....
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Impressive Collection of Shaw
- By Michael on 10-04-12
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Julius Caesar
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Dreyfuss, JoBeth Williams, Kelsey Grammer, and others
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar of approaching doom...
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Hard to understand using #4 Audio
- By Daniel on 03-21-11
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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Marsha Mason, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....
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Wonderfully Vibrant Production
- By Andre on 11-18-11
By: Anton Chekhov
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Major Barbara
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Kate Burton, Roger Rees, J. B. Blanc, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she's also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who's made millions from the sale of weapons of war....
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GBS knew a thing or two
- By Mike on 03-22-16
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Tartuffe
- By: Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Bedford, JB Blanc, Daniel Blinkoff, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church....
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Great!
- By Kevin Pablo on 03-01-17
By: Molière, and others
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Antigone
- By: Jean Anouilh
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon....
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Antigone
- By Melissa on 04-18-08
By: Jean Anouilh
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- By: James Shapiro
- Narrated by: James Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright....
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Note!--Abridged version
- By Scott on 01-05-16
By: James Shapiro
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Phyllis Applegate, Patti Austin, David Downing, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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An audio adaptation of the Shakespeare drama. Pericles is at the palace of Antioch with King Antiochus to solve the riddle that will win the King’s daughter’s hand in marriage....
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The Oresteia
- By: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos....
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Great production, Ian Johnston translation
- By Tad Davis on 12-09-08
By: Aeschylus, and others
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Dante's Paradise
- A Study on Part III of The Divine Comedy
- By: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Professor Esolen who has served as your guide through both the Inferno and Purgatory will guide you through the profound and elevated poetry of Paradise....
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Best ever!
- By army brat on 08-06-23
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The Three Sisters
- By: Anton Chekhov, Julius West - translator
- Narrated by: Andy Harrington, Leanne Yau, Elizabeth Chambers, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town....
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Good effort
- By L E Stewart on 01-12-23
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Ron Altman, Elizabeth Klett, Elizabeth Chambers, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Uncle Vanya is Anton Chekhov's 1902 tragicomedy focusing on the romantic entanglements of the residents of a declining country estate....
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Chekhov is pleasurable to read as well as to listen to.
- By Luiz H.S.de Vasconcellos on 10-26-22
By: Anton Chekhov
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Rachel: A Play in Three Acts (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Angelina Weld Grimké
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Sean Crisden, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When the curtains rise on Angelina Weld Grimké’s devastating drama, the Lovings—a Black family from the South—have settled into a small but immaculate apartment in an unnamed northern city....
New releases
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Agamemnon
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Agamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. Trilogy as a whole, originally performed at the annual Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, where it won first prize, is considered to be Aeschylus' last authenticated, and also his greatest, work. Agamemnon describes the homecoming of Agamemnon, king of Argos, from the Trojan War, and his return to his wife, Clytemnestra, who had been planning his murder (in concert with her lover, Aegisthus) as revenge for Agamemnon's earlier sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia.
By: Aeschylus
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The Theogony
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Theogony "the genealogy or birth of the gods" is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony.
By: Hesiod
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Eumenides
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The final play of the Oresteia, called The Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, Eumenídes), illustrates how the sequence of events in the trilogy ends up in the development of social order or a proper judicial system in Athenian society. In this play, Orestes is hunted down and tormented by the Furies, a trio of goddesses known to be the instruments of justice, who are also referred to as the "Gracious Ones" (Eumenides). They relentlessly pursue Orestes for the killing of his mother.
By: Aeschylus
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The Choephori
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia.
By: Aeschylus
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The Odes of Anacreon
- By: Anacreon, Thomas Moore - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Anacreon (582 BCE–485 BCE) was a Greek lyric poet born in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor. He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. He then moved to Samos, to Athens, and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons (including Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias) kept being murdered. It is unknown where Anacreon died, though he lived to the unusually advanced age of 85.
By: Anacreon, and others
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Antigone by Sophocles, is a classic Greek tragedy that unfolds against the backdrop of Thebes. The play delves into the profound ethical and moral dilemmas faced by its characters, with Antigone at the center of a conflict between personal convictions and civic duty. The narrative begins with the aftermath of a brutal war, where two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, have fallen on opposing sides. Antigone, their sister, defies the king's decree and buries Polynices, setting the stage for a clash between divine law and human authority.
By: Sophocles
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Agamemnon
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Agamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. Trilogy as a whole, originally performed at the annual Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, where it won first prize, is considered to be Aeschylus' last authenticated, and also his greatest, work. Agamemnon describes the homecoming of Agamemnon, king of Argos, from the Trojan War, and his return to his wife, Clytemnestra, who had been planning his murder (in concert with her lover, Aegisthus) as revenge for Agamemnon's earlier sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia.
By: Aeschylus
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The Theogony
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Theogony "the genealogy or birth of the gods" is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony.
By: Hesiod
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Eumenides
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The final play of the Oresteia, called The Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, Eumenídes), illustrates how the sequence of events in the trilogy ends up in the development of social order or a proper judicial system in Athenian society. In this play, Orestes is hunted down and tormented by the Furies, a trio of goddesses known to be the instruments of justice, who are also referred to as the "Gracious Ones" (Eumenides). They relentlessly pursue Orestes for the killing of his mother.
By: Aeschylus
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The Choephori
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia.
By: Aeschylus
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The Odes of Anacreon
- By: Anacreon, Thomas Moore - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Anacreon (582 BCE–485 BCE) was a Greek lyric poet born in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor. He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. He then moved to Samos, to Athens, and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons (including Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias) kept being murdered. It is unknown where Anacreon died, though he lived to the unusually advanced age of 85.
By: Anacreon, and others
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Antigone by Sophocles, is a classic Greek tragedy that unfolds against the backdrop of Thebes. The play delves into the profound ethical and moral dilemmas faced by its characters, with Antigone at the center of a conflict between personal convictions and civic duty. The narrative begins with the aftermath of a brutal war, where two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, have fallen on opposing sides. Antigone, their sister, defies the king's decree and buries Polynices, setting the stage for a clash between divine law and human authority.
By: Sophocles