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The Iliad
Listen to the first few lines of the Iliad (read in Greek by Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York):Listen to the entire first book of the Iliad (in Greek): Book
1
(at www.wiredforbooks.org)
Two men running for one man's life:
The Death of Hector (read in English by Derek Jacoby, March 1992, Penguin/HighBridge:
Classics on Cassette Series)
Hector's Mom implores him not to fight Achilles:
Hector considers:
Run Hector! Here comes Achilles:
Zeus thinks about lending a hand:
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Listen to book four of the Aeneid (in Latin): Book 4 (at www.wiredforbooks.org)
Paradise Lost
Listen to the audio version of the Arguments: Paradise Lost
Leaves of Grass
Listen to selections from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass": Leaves
of Grass
(at www.wiredforbooks.org)
Omeros and other words
of Derek Walcott
Listen to Derek Walcott (selections 5, 6, & 10): The
Routes of English
(at BBC Radio 4)
Extras
Hear some music: Ancient
Greek Music (at www.oeaw.ac.at)
More Greek and Roman recitations
can be found at:
The
Harvard Classics Prose and Poetry Recital Page and
The Princeton Classical Language
Instruction Project.
