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Title: Homer: The Iliad

Author: Homer

Narrator: Anton Lesser

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-10

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

One the earliest and greatest epic poems of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word. While the heroes fight before the walls of Troy the gods have also drawn up battle lines, and it is their disagreements as much as the heroes' efforts which will decide the conflict.

Despite the poem's antiquity, the very real, human qualities of the protagonists and their dilemmas make The Iliad immediately accessible, especially in the hands of a master story-teller such as Anton Lesser. The Iliad was composed in the eighth century B.C., almost certainly as an oral composition incorporating a number of different stories from a rich poetic tradition of works now lost to us. The identity of Homer has been fiercely but inconclusively debated since ancient times. The Greeks believed he was a single person, and various cities competed for the honour of naming him a citizen. However, nothing reliable is known about him, although some traditions insist that he was blind. The poem was originally designed for recitation on important occasions by a professional bard, at least until the sixth century B.C. when, according to Greek traditions, the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus had the poem written down and codified in a form similar to the work we know today.

Members Reviews:

Powell,s view

Long winded but from a heroic society where and when this was normal . Overblown importance .

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Titolo: Miti e leggende dell'antica Grecia [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece]

Sottotitolo: da"Il libro delle meraviglie" e "I racconti di Tanglewood"

Autore: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 04-02-10

Editore: Collina d'oro

Valutazioni: 3.5 su 5 su 2 voti

Categoria: Classics, Greek & Roman

Riepilogo Editore:

Hawthorne scrisse due libri, Il libro dele meraviglie e il mondo delle meraviglie, indirizzati a ragazzi in età scolare, in cui raccontava con linguaggio semplice e moderno i miti greci più famosi. I racconti sono anche molto piacevoli per adulti. I miti narrati sono:Medusa,Re Mida, Pandora, Ercole, Filemone e Bauci, Pegaso, Bellerofonte e la Chimera, il Minotauro, il ratto di Europa con Cadmo e Armonia, Anteo, Circe e Ulisse, Persefone, il vello d'oro. Musica: Arcadia, di Kevin Mc Leod.

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Titolo: Odissea [The Odyssey]

Autore: Omero, Ettore Romagnoli

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 04-02-10

Editore: Collina d'oro

Valutazioni: 1 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Classics, Greek & Roman

Riepilogo Editore:

La traduzione di Ettore Romagnoli rende il testo molto più comprensibile delle altre versioni. Completano i 24 canti anche un lungo comento del traduttore.

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Titolo: Eneide [Aeneid]

Autore: Virgilio

Narratore: Silvia Cechini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 03-31-10

Editore: Collina d'oro

Valutazioni: 4 su 5 su 4 voti

Categoria: Classics, Greek & Roman

Riepilogo Editore:

LEneide non è un semplice poema epico ma il quadro di un passaggio fra il vecchio mondo pagano e il nuovo mondo cristiano (nondimentichiamoci infatti che Virgilio è stato la guida di Dante nella Commedia). Solo un poeta dalla ricca vita interiore come Virgilio, e dal potere evocativo dei suoi versi poteva farsi linterprete di questo passaggio.Le versione dellEneide di Francesco Vivona, è ritenuta dalla critica la più aderente al testo latino e quella che meglio interpreta lanima virgiliana. Lo spirito di Vivona è aderente a quello Virgiliano, come la parola della sua traduzione a quella del testo, adesione resa, oltre che per ritmo e colore, per vibrazioni danima, per movimento di pensiero e di cose. La traduzione di Vivona riporta il complesso dei personaggi e delle situazioni nel quadro della emotività virgiliana e per far la sua e riprodurre in parole egli non ha bisogno di ricorrere a ingegnosità e a tecniche più o meno industriose e falsificatrici. Vivona vede il mondo virgiliano con lo stesso stato danimo di Virgilio, con una identità di sentimento e di immagini che lo mette nella privilegiata condizione di trovare parole adatte. Giuseppe Foderà.

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Recensioni dei membri:

Silvia Cecchini is the voice of Italian literature

If you could sum up Eneide [Aeneid] in three words, what would they be?

The Aeneid is one of the greatest epic poems of all time.

What other book might you compare Eneide [Aeneid] to and why?

The Aeneid is equal to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy.

Any additional comments?

Silvia Cecchini is an experienced, talented, and clear narrator of Italian literature. Each new work by her is an important event in the outstanding Italian collection of audible.com.

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Title: The Heart of It

Subtitle: The Iliad and The Odyssey

Author: Elizabeth McNamer

Narrator: Elizabeth McNamer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-10

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

Third in the new study guide series featuring engaging commentary by writer/lecturer Dr. Elizabeth McNamer on great literary classics. Dr. McNamer now concentrates on Homers Trojan War / Greek epic poems, The Iliad, which deals with love, jealousy, pride and the courage men and women display in war and The Odyssey, where hero Odysseus meets with strange adventures en route home to his faithful wife.

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Title: Myth

Subtitle: Dreams of The World: Stories of The Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses

Author: Janet Reinstra

Narrator: Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Lori Carson, Suzanne Vega, Jaron Lanier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-10

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

Myths and legends form the foundation for all cultures. The Greek and Roman myths were early tales created to explain the world and are now inextricably woven throughout music, art, film, theater, literature, politics and daily life. Thousands of years old, these myths continue to inspire and intrigue. Myth: Dreams of The World, keeps these stories vibrant with new recordings by an intriguing array of artists including Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Lori Carson, Suzanne Vega, Lemmy, Jaron Lanier and members of The Last Poets. The recording also features musical contributions from Material, Anton Fier, Liu Sola, Jeff Bova and Alex Hass, Painkiller, (Mick Harris, Bill Laswell and John Zorn), Automaton, Buckethead, Nicky Skopelitis and members of Parliament Funkadelic. For listeners who remember the stories from their childhood, Myth: Dreams of The World is a classical/modern recording that intrigues, disturbs, amuses and inspires.

Members Reviews:

Fun Performance

Overall, it was beautifully performed. But, if you want a more, in depth study of Greek Mythology, this isn't the right book. However, it's great for beginners.

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Title: Theseus

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

Narrator: Cynthia Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-09

Publisher: Full Cast Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

Theseus sets off to meet his father and claim the throne of Athens. But first he must defeat many obstacles, including giants, trolls, and the vicious Crommyonian Boar. This is a brilliant retelling of one of the greatest of the Greek myths. The story of Theseus pulses with adventure, humor, and tragedy.

©2003 Geraldine McCaughrean; (P)2008 Full Cast Audio

Members Reviews:

gr8 story awful narration

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The story as anyone with a love of classical myth&legends will know is excellent and up there with all classics.My problem is the shocking narration which gives no gravitas to the voice of one of the greats&actually makes it hard to listen to

What did you like best about this story?

All of it

How could the performance have been better?

By being done by anybody else

Did Theseus inspire you to do anything?

No

Any additional comments?

Enter at your peril !!!

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Title: The Georgics

Author: Publius Vergilius Maro

Narrator: Cecil Day Lewis

Format: Abridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-09

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

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.

©2009 Saland Publishing; (P)2009 Saland Publishing

Members Reviews:

On certain days I think it was almost worth it

Imagine if Michael Pollan had written _The Botany of Desire_ using hexameter verse. Now you can begin to understand how cool the Georgics is.

Unfortunate man, what grass you have had to secure!

Sit down on this couch, and let us both rest from our fears.

Plants-eyed view can do us no good. Rich cannabis

has spun out the hemp of life for us human bees

so that, however we can, we must learn to grow

our apples like this, but they grow free of all sorrow.

There are two bongs in the house of John Appleseed,

one of them filled with tubers, the other with hybrids.

If John pours gifts for a man from both of these bongs,

he sometimes encounters spud, sometimes food's sweetness.

But when John pours desire from the bong of potatoes only,

he makes a man hate his wife, and her earthy cooking

drives him mindlessly over the shining earth,

and he wanders alone, despised by tulips and tubers.

My main complaint is the fact that this is an edited version. Did I know there is an unedited version? Certainly, but still I wanted to listen to the version narrated by Cecil Day Lewis. On certain days I think it was almost worth it.

A magic rendering

Any additional comments?

This rendition by C Day Lewis is magical. Yes, it is abridged; Yes, it is on a topic, farming in the Roman Empire, that resonates little with modern readers. Yes, it is competing with an unabridged version by Charlton Griffin that is very good. But, this is the version to buy. I listened to it in one sitting at dusk and was transported back, as if by magic, 2,0000 years ago to a time and place of simple pleasures and great beauty. Lewis is reading from his own translation of Virgil, and the sweetness and lyricism of his narration is unforgetable.This is Virgil brought to life, and poetry of the very first order.

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Title: Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

Narrator: Barry Kraft

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

First published in A.D. 8, Ovid's Metamorphoses remains one of the most accessible and inspirational introductions to Greek mythology.

Translated by Frank Justus Miller.

Members Reviews:

Plagued by flaw in audio-book format

This is a potentially wonderful work that doesn't succeed because of problems inherent in the audio format which hit this work particularly hard. If I were to go into the audio-book publishing business, I would be much more attentive to chapter/section breaks, even if it means departing from the precise way it's done in the written work.

I can tell that the translation and narration here are fine based on the way I'm captivated by the first episode in each of Ovid's "Books." Really. . . this material is absolutely riveting, a wonderful listen. I also notice that by the end of the Book, I'm barely awake and pretty sure I did doze off at points in the interim.

One-hour-plus of un-broken narration does not work, not for Metamorphosis, and probably not for any audio book.

We need meaningful breaks (silence, audio-book music, place markers that would show in an iPod, etc.) after every episode, not after every book. I don't care whether Ovid demarcated it that way. I don't care if ancient audiences heard all-the-way-through oral recitations. These audio-books are geared for modern audiences and if the format is to flourish, publishers need to get out of auto-pilot mode (where they passively mimic written text) and really think about user experience.

It's probably harsh to pin all this on a review of Metamorphosis. I've seen it throughout audio. If I’d have figured out how to articulate it earlier, I'd have wrote this for Iliad, Odyssey or Aneid. But this is the piece where I realized why I wasn't enjoying the work as much as I could have.

Wonderful

A pivotal work and understandably so. Every line oozes with that famous Ovidian wit and Charm.

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Title: Weight

Subtitle: The Myths #3

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Narrator: Dick Hill, Susie Breck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman

Publisher's Summary:

When the hero Heracles, as one of his famous 12 labours, is tasked with stealing these apples he seeks out Atlas, offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit. Knowing that Heracles is the only person with the strength to take his burden, and enticed by the prospect of even a short-lived freedom, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born.

With her typical wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the 21st century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny. Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to our lives today, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect.

Members Reviews:

Great Philsophical Re-telling of a Myth

Weight by Jeanette Winterson is the story of Hercules and Atlas. In the story we are introduced to a Hercules that is the ultimate male Id running around the Ancient World - fornicating, masturbating, and killing - unburdened. He is juxtaposed to Atlas, the immortal Titan, a creature of all burden. The story probes the interactions between these two figures for all their philosophical value. For Jeanette Winterson, Atlas is a deeply tortured individual facing a punishment disproportionate to his perceived crime. His burden is only briefly lifted by a reluctant and opportunistic Hercules during his quest for the Golden Apples.

Winterson manages to do what any writer must do with a story we all know - which is arguably all stories - offer a fresh lens through which we perceive the world and the myth. For Winterson this is the crucial point of story. In the introduction Winterson says the Cannongate Myth Series - of which this is part - is a opportunity for "Re-telling stories for their own sakes and finding in them permanent truths about human nature. All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will hear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip other voices may be heard speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey." For Winterson the Weight is the necessity of story.

I find myself continually revisiting passages from this book from time to time on audio - I do not own a hard copy of the book. I am always astonished by the honesty and force of the myth.

If this sounds like a book you would be interested in I would highly recommend it.