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Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy’s challenge to fight. – Summary by Arthur Krolman for Librivox
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VIRGIL (70 BC – 19 BC), translated by John DRYDEN (1631 – 1700)
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)
Running time: 13 hours, 40 minutes
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Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 1
Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 2
Book 2: How they took the City, part 1
Book 2: How they took the City, part 2
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 1
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 2
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 1
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 2
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 1
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 2
Book 6: The World Below, part 1
Book 6: The World Below, part 2
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 1
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 2
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 1
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 2
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 1
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 2
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 1
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 2
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 1
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 2
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Total running time: 14 hours, 30 minutes
# 01 – The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
# 03 – Paris Challenges Menelaus
# 08 – The Victory of the Trojans
# 09 – The Embassy to Achilles
# 10 – Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies
# 11 – Agamemnon’s Day of Glory
# 12 – The Trojans Break the Wall
# 13 – Neptune helps the Achaeans
# 14 – Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home
# 16 – Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles
# 17 – The Light around the Body of Patroclus
# 19 – Achilles Goes Out to Fight
# 21 – Achilles Drives the Trojans Back
Running time: 14 hours, 54 minutes
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Summary from Librivox: Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the tenth edition of the first volume, The Age of Fable. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and eastern myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. (Summary by Kathleen Gatliffe for Librivox)
This book is often used as a high school text. Although the Wikimedia summary says it is appropriate for children, you might consider one of our other mythology titles to be more interesting for younger children.
Stories of Gods and Heroes
The Age of Fable: Publishers and Authors Prefaces
The Age of Fable: Chapter 1, Introduction
Chapter 2, Prometheus and Pandora
Chapter 3, Apollo and Daphne–Pyramus and Thisbe–Cephalus and Procris
Chapter 4, Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto–Diana and Actaeon–Latona and the Rustics
Chapter 6, Midas–Baucis and Philemon
Chapter 7, Proserpine–Glaucus and Scylla
Chapter 8, Pygmalion–Dryope–Venus and Adonis–Apollo and Hyacinthus
Chapter 10, Vertumnus and Pomon–Iphis and Anaxarete
Chapter 12, Cadmus–The Mermidons
Chapter 13, Nisus and Scylla–Echo and Narcissus–Clytie–Hero and Leander
Chapter 14, Minerva and Arachne–Niobe
Chapter 15, Graeae and Gorgons–Perseus and Medusa–Atlas–Andromeda
Chapter 16, Monsters and Giants–Sphinx–Pegasus and Chimaera–Centaurs–Griffin–Pygmies
Chapter 17, The Golden Fleece–Medea
Chapter 18, Meleager and Atalanta
Chapter 19, Hercules–Hebe and Ganymede
Chapter 20, Theseus and Daedalus–Castor and Pollux–Festivals and Games
Chapter 21, Bacchus and Ariadne
Chapter 22, The Rural Deities–The Dryads and Erisichthon–Rhoecus–Water Deities–Camenae–Winds
Chapter 23, Achelous and Hercules–Admetus and Alcestis–Antigone–Penelope
Chapter 24, Orpheus and Eurydice–Aristaeus–Amphion–Linus–Thamyris–Marsyas–Melampus–Musaeus
Chapter 25, Arion–Ibycus–Simonides–Sappho
Chapter 26, Endymion–Orion–Aurora and Tithonus–Acis and Galatea
Chapter 28, The Fall of Troy–Return of the Greeks–Orestesa nd Electra
Chapter 30, The Phaeacians–Fate of the Suitors
Chapter 31, Adventures of Aeneas–The Harpies–Dido–Palinurus
Chapter 32, The Infernal Regions–The Sibyl
Chapter 33, Aeneas in Italy–Camilla–Evander–Nisus and Euryalus–Mezentius–Turnus
Chapter 34, Pythagoras–Egyptian Deities–Oracles
Chapter 35, Origin of Mythology–Statues of Gods and Goddesses–Poets of Mythology
Chapter 36, Monsters (modern)–The Phoenix–Basilisk–Unicorn–Salamander
Chapter 37, Eastern Mythology–Zoroaster–Hindu Mythology–Castes–Buddha–The Grand Lama–Prester John
Chapter 38, Northern Mythology–Valhalla–The Valkyrior
This radio drama is a fun introduction to the Fall of Troy.
You are There: The Fall of Troy
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Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, “I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers”. (Summary by Rebecca for Librivox)
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02 The House of Circe. Men changed into Beasts. The Voyage to Hell. The Banquet of the Dead.
04 The Island of Calypso. Immortality Refused.
05 The Tempest. The Sea-bird’s Gift. The Escape by Swimming. The Sleep in the Woods.
07 The Songs of Demodocus. The Convoy Home. The Manners. Transformed to Stone. The Young Shepherd.
08 The Change from a King to a Beggar. Eumaeus and the Herdsmen. Telemachus.
09 The Queen’s Suitors. The Battle of the Beggars. The Armour Taken Down. The Meeting with Penelope.
10 The Madness from Above. The Bow of Ulysses. The Slaughter. The Conclusion.
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Of How the War with Troy Began
The Duel of Paris and Menelaus
The Great Deeds of Diomed
Concerning Other Valiant Deeds
The Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses
The Battle at the Wall
The Battle at the Ships
The Deeds and Death of Patroclus
The Rousing of Achilles
The Slaying of Hector
The Ransoming of Hector & The End of Troy
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles’s three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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