The Iliad (Version 2)
Homer
Read by Peter Dann
This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here rendered into prose by Samuel Butler, himself a major nineteenth century English novelist) is at once violently graphic, emotionally searing and strikingly contemporary in its understanding of the extremities to which rage may drive men, even as they understand full well that they are pursuing their own doom. Nearly three thousand years before the advent of cinema, the author(s) of The Iliad had already mastered many of the tropes the Hollywood blockbuster would later adopt, and so much of the form of this ancient masterpiece already feels oddly familiar. However, the depictions of physical and emotional violence at its heart retain their full power to shock us with their bleak, deeply disturbing truthfulness. (Summary by Peter Dann) (14 hr 8 min)
Chapters
Book 1 | 34:16 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 2 | 48:31 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 3 | 23:46 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 4 | 28:39 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 5 | 47:32 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 6 | 27:35 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 7 | 24:52 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 8 | 29:02 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 9 | 38:39 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 10 | 29:34 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 11 | 46:44 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 12 | 25:00 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 13 | 45:53 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 14 | 28:32 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 15 | 39:32 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 16 | 48:56 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 17 | 39:28 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 18 | 34:01 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 19 | 23:11 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 20 | 28:24 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 21 | 33:59 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 22 | 29:46 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 23 | 47:52 | Read by Peter Dann |
Book 24 | 45:00 | Read by Peter Dann |