Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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I mean... I got through it
- By Andrew Jones on 2020-06-19
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-14
- Language: English
- Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Series: The Divine Comedy, Book 1-3
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-01
- Language: English
- Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)
- Written by: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Kate Burton, Miriam Margolyes, Kevin Theis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Jane Austen's classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off....
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Fun but incomplete
- By Amazon Customer on 2026-01-18
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Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Kate Burton, Miriam Margolyes, Kevin Theis, Joao de Sousa, Melanie Dix, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Frances Limoncelli
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2009-03-16
- Language: English
- Jane Austen's classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off....
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Hamlet
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Josh Stamberg, Stephen Collins, JoBeth Williams, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language....
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Wow! Loved it.
- By Maureen Stupp on 2025-06-22
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Hamlet
- Narrated by: Josh Stamberg, Stephen Collins, JoBeth Williams, Stacy Keach, Alan Mandell, Emily Swallow, Matthew Wolf
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-15
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language....
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The Aeneid
- Written by: Virgil, Robert Fagles - translator, Bernard Knox - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance18
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Story17
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him...
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No proper chapters
- By Graham Nickel on 2024-09-16
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The Aeneid
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2006-11-02
- Language: English
- From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him...
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The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
- Written by: Carmen Acevedo Butcher - translator
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance30
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Story30
This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written....
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My Devotion to God has been Strengthened!
- By James on 2017-12-04
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The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-09
- Language: English
- This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written....
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Faust: Parts I & II
- Written by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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Faust: Parts I & II
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-16
- Language: English
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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Macbeth
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Josh Cooke, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall31
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Performance25
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Story25
Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....
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terrible adaptation. remove and replace with something better.
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-09-15
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Macbeth
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Josh Cooke, JD Cullum, Dan Donohue, Jeannie Elias, Chuma Gault
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-09
- Language: English
- Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- Written by: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran is now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition.
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2025-03-20
- Language: English
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The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran is now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition.
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Written by: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall136
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Performance118
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Story118
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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Excellent translation.
- By Iain Hutchinson on 2019-02-25
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Language: English
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy....
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-22
- Language: English
- Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy....
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...
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Language Barrier
- By Adam Phillips on 2021-08-28
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, Lesley Manville, Seroca Davis, Michael Balogun
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-26
- Language: English
- Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- Written by: Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....
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Worth purchasing
- By Brenda on 2022-03-10
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Series: The Great Courses: Western Literature
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-08
- Language: English
- You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....
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Rumi's Little Book of Life
- The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- Written by: Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Azima Melita Kolin - translator
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey....
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Rumi's Little Book of Life
- The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-08
- Language: English
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This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey....
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Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)
- Written by: Jane Austen, Christina Calvit
- Narrated by: Diane Adair, Jane Carr, Chloe Dworkin, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Overall3
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Performance2
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The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan....
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Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Diane Adair, Jane Carr, Chloe Dworkin, Nicholas Hormann, Julia McIlvaine, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Jill Renner
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-12
- Language: English
- The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan....
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Series: Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-28
- Language: English
- A collection of the finest work of one of America's best-loved poets. Read by Julie Harris....
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....
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Very Well Done
- By Hmackdad on 2019-01-10
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2009-01-15
- Language: English
- The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....
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How to Keep Your Cool
- An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- Written by: Seneca, James S. Romm - Translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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This splendid new translation of essential selections from the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca's On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger....
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Narrator sounds like AI
- By CD on 2023-12-28
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How to Keep Your Cool
- An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-05
- Language: English
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This splendid new translation of essential selections from the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca's On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger....
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, Dinsdale Landen, Julian Glover
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-09
- Language: English
- Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Dikran Tulaine
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-29
- Language: English
- The Illiad dates back to the 8th century BC and is Homer's epic precursor to The Odyssey....
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