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Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620634 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620634] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer and His Iliad Author: Robin Lane Fox Narrator: Steve John Shepherd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 2600 years ago, but still transfixes us with its tale of loss and battle, love and revenge, guided throughout by the active presence of the gods. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving but great questions remain: where, how and when it was composed and why it has such enduring power? In this compelling book Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a life-long love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date and a method for its composition, giving us a sense of alternative approaches and grounding his own in discoveries about long heroic poems composed elsewhere in the world, and the ever-growing evidence of archaeology. Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry. Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the poem, its values, implicit and explicit, its characters, its women, its gods and even its horses. He argues repeatedly for its beautiful observation and addresses its parallel use of what is, to us, the natural world. Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. In this superbly written and conceived tribute, Lane Fox expresses and amplifies what old and new readers can find in it. It is pervaded, he argues, by a poignant hardness which is not just a poetic trick. It is a deeply held view of the world. ©2023 Robin Lane Fox (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of the Dead by Normandi Ellis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668832 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668832] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of the Dead Author: Normandi Ellis Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: A beautiful and engaging rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities that have little relevance to our contemporary situations. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate—they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods. Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of 'effective utterance,' Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.

Classical Mythology: The Basics 2nd Edition by Richard Martin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673946 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673946] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classical Mythology: The Basics 2nd Edition Author: Richard Martin Narrator: Kyle Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and scholars since. In six clear and concise chapters, this book explains what myths are, sketches the main stories about divinities, heroes and heroines, and explores through specific case studies the ways in which they influenced modern culture, from Renaissance opera to contemporary video games and social movements. The second edition also features a new chapter analyzing how myths have been used in politics from antiquity to the present day. No prior knowledge of mythology is assumed, and the book incorporates the latest scholarship on classical mythology, providing annotated lists of further readings. Anyone who has encountered Greek or Roman myths in literature, art, or pop culture and wants to know more about the cultural contexts for the stories will benefit from this compact book. Intended for a wide audience, the second edition of Classical Mythology: The Basics continues to offer a clear introduction to the subject for undergraduates, scholars, and the general listener.

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science by Carlo Rovelli

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604242 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604242] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anaximander: And the Birth of Science Author: Carlo Rovelli Narrator: Roy Mcmillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge.   In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a historian or as an expert in Greek philosophy, but as a scientist interested in the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in the critical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge. * This audiobook ncludes a downloadable PDF of maps, landmarks, artifacts, and some of the earliest antiquities found and documented from ancient times.

Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy by Christopher Phillips

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597551 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597551] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy Author: Christopher Phillips Narrator: Sean Rohani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates. What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—'Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree' (Utne Reader)—investigates these same questions, beginning in the marketplace of modern-day Athens. He goes on to investigate the timely responses and outlooks of people from different cultures and backgrounds around the world: from Greece and Spain to Japan and Korea, Mexico City, and Chiapas, where the region's indigenous people struggle for fundamental human rights. Phillips also traveled throughout the United States, holding dialogues in diverse communities from New York City to the Navajo Nation. Introducing us to less familiar thinkers in non-Western traditions who were kindred spirits of Socrates, Phillips enlarges our perspectives on life's fundamental questions, creating an innovative world survey of philosophy.