The Iliad by Homer
Written by Homer
Narrated by Katie Haigh
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About this audiobook
The Iliad tells the epic story of the war of Troy and its ten-year siege, bloody battles and great heroes. The mighty warrior Achilles, whose mother held him by the heel while immerging him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable, his brave companion Patroclus, kings and gods compete alike for the glory of ancient Greece, which is still resonating today.
The Iliad and its sequel, the Odyssey, are the oldest extant works of Western literature. They are of tremendous cultural importance, and their magic is still strongly alive.
Homer
Although recognized as one of the greatest ancient Greek poets, the life and figure of Homer remains shrouded in mystery. Credited with the authorship of the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, Homer, if he existed, is believed to have lived during the ninth century BC, and has been identified variously as a Babylonian, an Ithacan, or an Ionian. Regardless of his citizenship, Homer’s poems and speeches played a key role in shaping Greek culture, and Homeric studies remains one of the oldest continuous areas of scholarship, reaching from antiquity through to modern times.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great story of myth, legend, courage, bravemess, and honor!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent short introduction to one of the most important texts in western literature. Beautifully read, would recommend as primer to get bearings before approaching the text, for kids or anyone else partial to a nice bedtime story. At just one hour, there is now no excuse for not knowing the story behind the Iliad.