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The Complete Works of Homer
The Iliad, The Odyssey & The HymnsBy Homer, Gilbert MurrayLength31h 19m
About this audiobook
The Homeric epics were the greatest influence on ancient Greek culture and education; to Plato, Homer was simply the one who "has taught Greece"
The Iliad and the Odyssey are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. From antiquity until the present day, the influence of Homeric epic on Western civilization has been great, inspiring many of its most famous works of literature, music, art and film. The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry, Literary Classics
Length31 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
10Iliad (pt. 7)
2Homer
11Odyssey (pt. 1)
3About Homeric Hymns
12Odyssey (pt. 2)
4Iliad (pt. 1)
13Odyssey (pt. 3)
5Iliad (pt. 2)
14Odyssey (pt. 4)
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6Iliad (pt. 3)
15Odyssey (pt. 5)
7Iliad (pt. 4)
16Homeric Hymns (pt. 1)
8Iliad (pt. 5)
17Homeric Hymns (pt. 2)
9Iliad (pt. 6)