The Suppliants
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The fifty daughters of Danaos have with their father fled by ship from Egypt, escaping compulsatory marriage with their fifty cousins, the sons of Aegyptos. They arrive in Argos, where, by supplication to the king and people, they seek refuge from their cousins, who sailed in pursuit. Their devout abhorrence of the marriage is the weightiest theme of the play.
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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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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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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 Scarlet Plague [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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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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The Divine Comedy
- De: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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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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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
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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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The Aeneid
- De: Virgil
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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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
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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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Idylls of the King
- De: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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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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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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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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The Song of Roland
- De: Unknown
- Narrado por: A Full Cast
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
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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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Macbeth
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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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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Beowulf: The New Translation
- De: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrado por: John Hanks
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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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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King John: The Arkangel Shakespeare
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Michael Feast, Michael Maloney, Eileen Atkins
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
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King John of England is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy. Will England be destroyed by his fatal indecision? As alliances are made, broken, and remade, the paranoid and erratic John reveals his weakness and reliance on those around him - including his powerful mother, Queen Elinor, and Faulconbridge, the cynical and witty bastard son of the dead King Richard I.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
- De Darwin8u en 05-08-17
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- De: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrado por: Terry Jones
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute delight!
- De Shannon Slee en 07-15-18
De: J. R. R. Tolkien
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Suppliants
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- Taylor Britton
- 06-13-19
nice supplement
a nice supplement to the great courses plus courses ive been taking on ancient greece
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- Jon Pederson
- 10-17-20
A challenging translation, wonderfully read
The narrator has a wonderful voice, clear, strong, yet feminine. I hope to listen to her work again in the future.
I listened to this not long after listening to Iliad and Odyssey, and I was amazed by the contrast. It's a play in one act, in one location, yet there is struggle, joy, and grief, stories of old, and challenges.
The translation is at a reading level that seems way over my head (some college). I don't know if a different translation would have made the story more accessible to me, but listening to it at .75x speed gave me more time to try to process everything (it also gave me more time to appreciate Beth Bostic's voice).
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- Arnar Styr Björnsson
- 09-27-20
Ancient Greek play read in ancient English
The narration is good. The translation is ancient and overbearingly poetic. This 1:20 hour play seems endless during the listening for this reason. A modern version is much needed.
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