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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a poem, translated by Bayard Taylor, which tells the beautiful and emotional story of a man who has seen and done it all. However, despite all of his learning and education, his life still feels empty and unaccomplished. He believes wholeheartedly that there is something else out there. Faust, having exhausted all other fields of study, turns to magic for fulfillment. He summons the devil and makes a pact - that if the devil can show him something rewarding and fulfilling, he will give the devil his soul.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading
- De Grant Pajak en 03-29-17
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Samson Agonistes
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: David de Keyser, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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Samson Agonistes, the 'dramatic poem' by John Milton, was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the Chorus commenting on the action, it follows the biblical story of the blind Samson as he wreaks his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him. A powerful subject, with a personal resonance for the blind Milton, it is a perfect work for the medium of audiobook where poetry and drama can be balanced equally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- De Anonymous User en 11-06-20
De: John Milton
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The Scarlet Plague [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella, a ragged and tattered old man tells his progeny of what life was like before The Scarlet Plague appeared - and wiped out civilization as they knew it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful listen very relevant today!
- De Johnny en 12-02-17
De: Jack London
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 732
Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language. Remarkably enough, they were written near the end of John Milton's amazing life, a bold testimonial to his mental powers in old age. And, since he had gone completely blind in 1652, 15 years prior to Paradise Lost, he dictated it and all his other works to his daughter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SELL YOUR SHIRT FOR THIS AUDIO BOOK!
- De thomas en 04-23-11
De: John Milton
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The Divine Comedy
- De: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 576
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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. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not for listening.
- De Larry en 03-13-11
De: Dante Alighieri, y otros
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Idylls of the King
- De: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 199
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The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. Employing some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written, Tennyson crafted his version of the Knights of the Round Table over the course of nearly fifty years, completing it in 1885. Despite the length of time, Tennyson managed to maintain a high level of style and continuity throughout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful poetry
- De Roger en 01-15-08
De: Alfred Tennyson
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The Aeneid
- De: Virgil
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 568
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The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization. Within the brooding and melancholy atmosphere of Virgil's pious masterpiece lies the mythic story of Aeneas and his flight from burning Troy, taking with him across the Mediterranean the survivors of the Greek onslaught. Aeneas, after many travails and adventures, including a love affair with Dido Queen of Carthage and a visit to the underworld to see his father, ends up in Italy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An epic in every sense of the word
- De James en 01-06-05
De: Virgil
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Beowulf
- De: Robert K. Gordon, translator
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 731
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Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. It celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman and warrior, as he proves his superhuman strength and endurance. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, rewarding his men generously and accomplishing glorious deeds to honor his king.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Translator Preferred
- De JerryT en 05-10-05
De: Robert K. Gordon, y otros
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Macbeth
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fire burn and cauldron bubble - an excellent stew
- De Marius en 04-06-04
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The Song of Roland
- De: Unknown
- Narrado por: A Full Cast
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 199
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Since his youth, living in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland's mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of Charlemagne. He learns from her that he is descended from great heroes of old and that his mother is Charlemagne's sister, the Princess Bertha.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly Excellent!
- De Paul en 06-14-11
De: Unknown
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- De: Apollonius of Rhodes, R. C. Seaton - translator, Nicolas Soames - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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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. The finest classic account comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, the Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE and librarian at Alexandria. Though less well-known than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and much shorter, it is an epic poem which is both exciting and moving, with remarkably vivid portraits of the main characters, Jason and Medea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Varied but unemotional
- De Tad Davis en 04-25-19
De: Apollonius of Rhodes, y otros
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Beowulf: The New Translation
- De: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrado por: John Hanks
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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The origins, history and authorship of Beowulf are shrouded in uncertainty. This heroic epic probably began, as most do, with a wandering troubadour strumming a stringed instrument, sitting before a hearth-fire, and singing the verses to a spellbound audience arrayed before him. Beowulf is a rousing adventure story, filled with intrepid heroes, monsters and fire-breathing dragons, which can be listened to for the sheer enjoyment of the tale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow as audio
- De CSterle en 10-14-14
De: Gerald J. Davis
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The Iliad
- De: Homer
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Most of the great Greek stories and epic tales are initiated over women, which is exactly what happens in the very beginning of The Iliad by Homer. The Trojan War has been waging for nearly a decade, and really erupted when Helen, the wife to Menelaos, was kidnapped and thus launched the "thousand ships" in pursuit of her. This is the reason that the Achaians and the Trojans have been fighting each other for so long. Achilles, who has become hero to the Greeks, is given the present of a slave girl for his excellence in battle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Iliad
- De Barry en 10-08-17
De: Homer
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Cymbeline: The Arkangel Shakespeare
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Sophie Thompson, Ben Porter, Jack Shepherd, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is persecuted by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, and by Cloten, the Queen's doltish son. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to find her husband, the banished Posthumus. On her journey, she unwittingly meets her two brothers, stolen from the court as infants. Posthumus, meanwhile, has been convinced by the villainous Iachimo that Imogen is unchaste and agrees to a test of her faithfulness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Has its moments but it has a lot less than I hoped
- De Darwin8u en 12-21-17
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Oresteia
- De: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War, only to be treacherously slain by his own wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treachery - a trial with the goddess Athena as judge, the god Apollo as defense attorney, and, as prosecutors, relentless avenging demons called The Furies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great production, Ian Johnston translation
- De Tad Davis en 12-09-08
De: Aeschylus, y otros
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The Oresteia
- Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Furies
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Lesley Sharp, Hugo Speer, Will Howard, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 51
The classic trilogy about murder, revenge and justice, as heard on BBC Radio 3 – plus a bonus documentary exploring Aeschylus's seminal Greek tragedy. A chilling tale of homecoming, violent death and bloody vengeance, The Oresteia dates back to the fifth century BC, but its themes still resonate today. At once a family saga, morality tale and courtroom drama, it recounts how two generations of the cursed House of Atreus become locked into a deadly cycle of atrocities....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Three adaptations, three writers
- De purplecrayon88 en 03-12-21
De: Aeschylus
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Agamemnon
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Keira Grace
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
Agamemnon is the first part of the Oresteia trilogy by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. Each of the plays that form part of The Oresteia can stand alone, but they perfectly complement one other in a longer narrative. Agamemnon provides the seed of all the themes that are explored in part two, The Libation Bearers, and three, The Eumenides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Agamemnon: A Riveting Tale of Betrayal, Revenge, and Divine Justice
- De Kevin D. en 10-07-23
De: Aeschylus
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The Plays of Sophocles
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Sophocles was born at Colonus, near Athens in about 496 BC and is considered to be one of the premier playwrights of Greek tragedy. His stories may have been filled with strife, but Sophocles himself was prosperous and came from a good family. It is said that he was handsome, wealthy, and a highly respected citizen of Athens. During his life, he wrote over 120 plays and was instrumental in how plays would eventually be performed, including the addition of stage props.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad Dialogue
- De Zoe Olvera en 08-12-18
De: Sophocles
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
One of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights.
De: Sophocles
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Prometheus Bound
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where the god discloses the reason for his punishment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A one-man show
- De Tad en 12-20-10
De: Aeschylus
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The Oresteia
- De: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War, only to be treacherously slain by his own wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treachery - a trial with the goddess Athena as judge, the god Apollo as defense attorney, and, as prosecutors, relentless avenging demons called The Furies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great production, Ian Johnston translation
- De Tad Davis en 12-09-08
De: Aeschylus, y otros
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The Oresteia
- Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Furies
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Lesley Sharp, Hugo Speer, Will Howard, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 51
The classic trilogy about murder, revenge and justice, as heard on BBC Radio 3 – plus a bonus documentary exploring Aeschylus's seminal Greek tragedy. A chilling tale of homecoming, violent death and bloody vengeance, The Oresteia dates back to the fifth century BC, but its themes still resonate today. At once a family saga, morality tale and courtroom drama, it recounts how two generations of the cursed House of Atreus become locked into a deadly cycle of atrocities....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Three adaptations, three writers
- De purplecrayon88 en 03-12-21
De: Aeschylus
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Agamemnon
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Keira Grace
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
Agamemnon is the first part of the Oresteia trilogy by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. Each of the plays that form part of The Oresteia can stand alone, but they perfectly complement one other in a longer narrative. Agamemnon provides the seed of all the themes that are explored in part two, The Libation Bearers, and three, The Eumenides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Agamemnon: A Riveting Tale of Betrayal, Revenge, and Divine Justice
- De Kevin D. en 10-07-23
De: Aeschylus
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The Plays of Sophocles
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Sophocles was born at Colonus, near Athens in about 496 BC and is considered to be one of the premier playwrights of Greek tragedy. His stories may have been filled with strife, but Sophocles himself was prosperous and came from a good family. It is said that he was handsome, wealthy, and a highly respected citizen of Athens. During his life, he wrote over 120 plays and was instrumental in how plays would eventually be performed, including the addition of stage props.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad Dialogue
- De Zoe Olvera en 08-12-18
De: Sophocles
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
One of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights.
De: Sophocles
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Prometheus Bound
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where the god discloses the reason for his punishment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A one-man show
- De Tad en 12-20-10
De: Aeschylus
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Three Greek Tragedies
- De: Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Blood, gore, thrills, chills, and romance abound in these plays by three of the great Greek authors. Included are "Medea" by Euripides; "Antigone" by Sophocles; and "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Two Minor Complaints
- De Thomas en 01-03-15
De: Euripides, y otros
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10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature
- The Odyssey, the Works and Days, Theogony, the Complete Poems of Sappho, Medea, Antigone, Oresteia, the Odes of Anacreon
- De: Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, y otros
- Narrado por: Peter Coates, Kelli Winkler, Mark Bowen
- Duración: 25 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This carefully selected collection contains: The Odyssey ; The Works and Days ; Theogony ; The Complete Poems of Sappho ; Medea ; Antigone ; Agamemnon ; The Choephori ; Eumenides.
De: Homer, y otros
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Histories
- De: Herodotus
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 876
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 871
In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style. Perhaps most famously, the book tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, king of Persia. Here are not only the great battles - Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis - but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of Audible's "The Histories" by Herodotus
- De Emily en 07-19-16
De: Herodotus
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The Iliad
- De: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 794
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 650
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 652
The Iliad is one of the most enduring creations of Western Civilization and was originally written to be recited or chanted to the accompaniment of various instruments. Properly performed, this work today is just as meaningful, just as powerful, and just as entertaining as it was in the ninth century BC, and it casts its spell upon modern listeners with the same raw intensity as it did upon the people of ancient times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Iliad
- De Jefferson en 04-17-10
De: Homer, y otros
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The Iliad of Homer
- De: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,650
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,462
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,453
For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the
Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people. Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece -whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the
Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vandiver never disappoints
- De Machteacher en 07-23-13
De: Elizabeth Vandiver, y otros
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The Oedipus Plays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Sophocles, Francis Storr - translator
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Inspired by the mythic house of Thebes, Sophocles’s defining Greek tragedies follow the fates that befall three doomed generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic Play, mediocre performance
- De Jared Z. en 12-15-22
De: Sophocles, y otros
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Agamemnon
- De: Aeschylus
- Narrado por: Mark Brown
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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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.
De: Aeschylus
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Metamorphoses
- De: Ovid
- Narrado por: Barry Kraft
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Plagued by flaw in audio-book format
- De Amazon Customer en 10-14-08
De: Ovid
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The Aeneid
- De: Virgil
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but the chapters aren't IN ORDER
- De Maggie en 10-18-17
De: Virgil
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- De: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,951
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oddball Translation
- De Joel Jenkins en 05-11-17
De: Homer, y otros
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Don Quixote
- Translated by Edith Grossman
- De: Edith Grossman - translator, Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 39 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,091
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,520
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Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more trouble than triumph. At once humorous, romantic, and sad, Don Quixote is a literary landmark. This fresh edition, by award-winning translator Edith Grossman, brings the tale to life as never before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Fourth Try at an Audible Quixote
- De James en 12-24-12
De: Edith Grossman - translator, y otros
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Paradise Lost
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most accessible reading of Paradise Lost
- De Tony McClung en 02-21-10
De: John Milton
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- cannonwoods
- 01-18-20
Pretty Basic Narration
Just a note to say be ready for no intonation, no drama, etc., in the reader's voice. She reads with clarity, but she does not invoke any interest in this story. You'd be better off to read it yourself.
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