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Ovid was probably the most popular of all the Roman poets during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and his verse was the inspiration for countless artistic and literary masterpieces of the time. Shakespeare, Bernini, and Rubens were only a few of those who mined his work to extraordinary effect.
Ovid has left mankind a magnificent achievement, and his sparkling poetry is a tour de force of Homeric and Roman myth. As Ovid himself wrote: "As long as Rome is the eternal city, these lines shall echo from the lips of men."
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The translation is suspect. Painful modernisms.
- De Mark Owens en 02-07-21
De: Ovid, y otros
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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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- De Larry en 03-13-11
De: Dante Alighieri, y otros
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A History of the Roman Empire
- From Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
- De: John Bagnell Bury
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 41 m
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No era in world history has fascinated us more than that of the Roman Empire, especially when it was at its height. The period known as the Pax Romana is generally agreed to have occurred between Octavian's defeat of Mark Antony at Actium in 27 B.C. to the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D.180. During this 227-year period, most of the sharp military conflict was confined to the periphery of the empire, though the civil war kicked off during the Year of the Four Emperors in 68/69 was a glaring exception to this "universal" peace.
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The Love Poems
- De: Ovid
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is best known for his epic poem Metamorphoses, a collection of myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. His works continue to be widely read and admired, and he is regarded as one of the most significant poets of ancient Rome. Ovid’s love poems are both brilliant and evocative. In Amores, the romantic mysteriousness of elegiac love-poetry is exploded by his witty and ironic treatment of the form. Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris both lay down the rules for the game of love, which both sexes can play.
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The Aeneid
- De: Virgil
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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Good but the chapters aren't IN ORDER
- De Maggie en 10-18-17
De: Virgil
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Faust: Parts I & II
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Philippe Duquenoy
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Faust has long been considered one of the most important works of European literature ever published. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began writing Faust in the 1770s while still a young man, spending most of his adult life on the project. Faust was finally finished almost 50 years later, near the end of his life. Faust is a philosophical drama full of humor, satire, and tragedy. The demon Mephistopheles makes a bet with God that he can lure Faust from the path of good.
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Wonderful Performance
- De David Sanders en 03-15-18
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On the Nature of Things
- De: Lucretius
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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This famous work by Lucretius is a masterpiece of didactic poetry, and it still stands today as the finest exposition of Epicurean philosophy ever written. The poem was produced in the middle of first century B.C., a period that was to witness a flowering of Latin literature unequaled for beauty and intellectual power in subsequent ages. The Latin title, De Rerum Natura, translates literally to On the Nature of Things and is meant to impress the reader with the breadth and depth of Epicurean philosophy.
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I didn't like the structure of the audiobook
- De Erez en 04-24-12
De: Lucretius
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Hellenica
- De: Xenophon
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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The Hellenica is Xenophon’s continuation of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, literally resuming from where the previous author’s history was abruptly left unfinished and narrating the events of the final seven years of the conflict and the war’s aftermath. Some historians consider the Hellenica to be a personal work, written by Xenophon in retirement on his Spartan estate, and intended primarily for circulation among his friends, who would have known the main protagonists and events, having most likely participated in them.
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A read no history lover should do without!
- De Epaminondas en 11-07-19
De: Xenophon
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Aeneid
- De: Virgil
- Narrado por: Paul Scofield, Jill Balcon, Toby Stephens, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy. His quest is to find the site "in the west" where he will found a new town prophesied to be the seat of a world empire: Rome.
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Great but Abridged
- De Madeleine en 05-17-08
De: Virgil
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The Works and Days
- De: Hesiod, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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Among the finest poets of ancient Greece was Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, who lived in the eighth century B.C. It is still a matter of dispute whether Homer or Hesiod was the earlier poet, and sometimes whether they were one and the same person! At any rate, Hesiod's incredible poetry serves as a major source for our understanding of Greek mythology, farming practices, time keeping and astronomy. In and of itself, the "Works and Days" is unparalleled in its richness and beauty, easily rivaling Homer.
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This Audiobook includes Theogony.
- De Michael en 08-17-15
De: Hesiod, y otros
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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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SELL YOUR SHIRT FOR THIS AUDIO BOOK!
- De thomas en 04-23-11
De: John Milton
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Metamorphoses
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- Long Term Review Guy
- 11-21-16
Great rendition of questionable content
With no prior experience with classics, I sat down to hear this recasting of the Greek myths with Ovid's late Roman sensibilities. I found the telling of these mostly painful, and wondered that so many stories involve someone turning into a bird. (put a bird on it? ancients must have been totally mind blown that some animals fly)
I was particularly irked by the "Greek myth avengers" stories where Ovid just name drops a bunch of heros into one scene (fighting a pig) and then goes on and on about what each one did. proves that Hollywood is not the only character recycling wasteland.
Really, all of the fighting described in here is a bit over detailed in ways that made it sound pulpy (his brains came out like cheese through cheese cloth) and I didn't come away understanding the gods attitudes any better at all. they are all extremely petty.
More engaging than the Bible, for sure, but I medium regret having given 17 hours to this work. Maybe I don't have the right attitude to appreciate the classics; I was expecting more story power than what is here. Which is described well but gives no strong sense of the morality behind the stories. Even despite the heavy focus on the surface the stories are Ok.
Imagine my horror to have wasted several years learning ancient Greek to get this content. On that score, 17hrs is a bargain.
Dare I continue this foolish line of inquiry with the Iliad next? probably but I'm pretty stubborn and masochistic with the western intellectual tradition.
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- tetrahymena
- 03-27-21
Wes Craven, read it and weep!
If you have ever had an interest in the mythology of Greece and Rome, then you need to listen to or read The Metamorphosis. This book is the source of many of the stories that have come down to us. After avoiding the book for years (the title put me off), I finally listened to it. Oh my! Modern horror writers would blanch at some of the stories. Being held helpless in bed as you are covered in vipers and driven mad by the furies. Being transformed into a deer and hunted by your own friends and dogs. The horror lies in the loss of agency and the retention of knowledge of who you were. And stories of love and compassion, of betrayal and loyalty.
The book is more a series of short stories that explore the psyche of people than a single piece. It can be digested in delightful tidbits over time. It's one that I probably would never have taken the time to read, but it was a magnificent listen.
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- Lucky
- 03-03-19
Terrific Narraration
Griffin does a terrific job narrating. He breathes life into each character without taking away from the majesty that is Ovid. Worth the price. I would say it is the best Audio version on Ovid performed by a single narrator.
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- Brett Green
- 06-10-20
Eh. A better translation would help
This is just ok. The translation is fair. There is a bit of monotheism applied which really is distracting. The performance is fine but it doesn’t uplift a dull translation.
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- brett
- 02-10-08
Solid
This is a solid well done production. The narration was very good. The central theme of this epic poem is "things that change" and this is the thread which interconnects all of the various tales. Its full of very colorful stories and loaded with fanciful creatures and all the gods are there. Loads of beautiful Nymphs hanging about in the glades and shores of quiet pools...
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- Andres Mata Osorio
- 04-03-16
Spirited reading of the Horace Gregory translation
It took my 15 days to hear the entire reading. One enters into an alternate world of unexpected changes of entwined human and divine hearts.
Ovid was the Rod Serling of the ancient world.
This epic of Being in the midst of surprise, sexual violence and trapped identities speaks more to our time than political Vergil or pedantic Lucretius. Go enter this ever relevant Twilight Zone where many "know the best but do the worst' And Ovid of course was the author Shakespeare most lovingly learned and stole from!
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- E. Stewart
- 03-08-22
It’s good
I like these stories. I wish I had any idea who translated this version. I want a book to properly follow along with while this audiobook plays.
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- IPEVOINC
- 05-24-13
Not that translation mentioned in Amazon reviews
I think this source of audio book was translated by Horace Gregory, link as follow:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Metamorphoses-ebook/dp/B00328ZUO8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369420126&sr=1-1&keywords=horace+gregory
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- Thor, goT
- 06-01-15
Beautiful experience
It was a beautiful experience to go through this work, which has inspired so much of our own literature. In one of the Great Lecture series the professor mentioned that for many historical reasons this work, originally written around 8 BC, was preserved and went on to be widely studied by many influential English authors, such as Shakespeare and Chaucer. Ovid's mastery of poetic form and his use of the mythologies as a symbolic medium to explore life and existence, rather than serve as a worship of the gods, made his writing imminently approachable to intellectuals from the Christian era even while other ancient works were abandoned. After the professor's description of the scope of Ovid's influence, I decided to dive in and experience this for myself.
Ovid did something unspecified by historical sources to anger Augustus and was exiled to a small backwater area where he wrote this masterpiece. It is unclear what he did, but he continually petitioned to be allowed to return to Rome and was rejected. Ovid was cynical, irreverent, sarcastic, hilarious, slightly perverse and very eloquent, which comes through in his writing. I enjoyed the beautiful imagery and scope of this work and, personally, think he was dropping hints to the reason for his exile by Augustus in certain stories and arguing for the end of his exile in others.
I particularly loved the imagery of the first two and final books, and the description of the forests being flooded and branches brushing against the sides of dolphins as they swam between the trees was breathtaking. I also laughed aloud in several places as Ovid made dry pronouncements about somebody's motives or personal limitations. This was definitely a weighty book, so I could not go through it in a single sitting, and took several breaks from it to ensure I was in the frame of mind to be able to focus on it. It was also hard for me to remember all of the deities and their traits, particularly since he used their Latin names, but I was able to get through it with the occasional reference (e.g. - Phoebus is Apollo, even though earlier in the work Ovid actually calls him Apollo instead of Phoebus; and Lucifer was a completely different character in Latin mythology affiliated with the brightest morning star whose name was later applied to Christianity's Satan). I'm sure being a scholar of classical mythology would really help illuminate this work, but that certainly isn't necessary and I was able to comprehend what was going on without those credentials.
This definitely was not an easy piece of literature to go through, but it was not a chore to do so either and the experience was both enjoyable and enlightening. Give it a try!
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- Tim Kane
- 06-24-07
Excellent Myth Overview
I'm big mythology fan and this poem fit the bill. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the text so I could read along. Ovid has some stunning tales. Many that I already knew, and some intriguing new ones. There is plenty of blood and gore. The only downside might be books 9-11 which can get a bit raunchy. Otherwise, this is a must for any myth buff.
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