Homer

Project Gutenberg Audiobook of the Odyssey

=The Odyssey=

Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler
This audio reading of The Odyssey is read by Kirsten Ferreri, Tricia G, Jemma Blythe, Gesine, Hugh McGuire, ontheroad, Reynard T. Fox, Robin Cotter, David Barnes, Kurt Wong, Moira Fogarty, hugh mac, Kara Shallenberg, Chris Hawk, Denny Sayers

Contents

 * Book 01 - 00:23:06 Read by: Kirsten Ferreri
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 * Book 02 - 00:23:22 Read by: Kirsten Ferreri
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 * Book 03 - 00:25:20 Read by: Kirsten Ferreri
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 * Book 04 - 00:43:39 Read by: Kirsten Ferreri and Tricia G
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 * Book 05 - 00:27:53 Read by: JemmaBlythe
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 * Book 06 - 00:22:53 Read by: Gesine
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 * Book 07 - 00:19:09 Read by: Hugh McGuire
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 * Book 08 - 00:30:12 Read by: ontheroad
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 * Book 09 - 00:38:23 Read by: Reynard T. Fox
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 * Book 10 - 00:37:04 Read by: Reynard T. Fox
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 * Book 11 - 00:41:14 Read by: Robin Cotter
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 * Book 12 - 00:30:04 Read by: Robin Cotter
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 * Book 13 - 00:24:57 Read by: JemmaBlythe
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 * Book 14 - 00:33:27 Read by: David Barnes
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 * Book 15 - 00:22:37 Read by: Kurt Wong
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 * Book 16 - 00:28:18 Read by: Robin Cotter
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 * Book 17 - 00:31:46 Read by: Moira Fogarty
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 * Book 18 - 00:22:34 Read by: Moira Fogarty
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 * Book 19 - 00:30:38 Read by: hugh mac
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 * Book 20 - 00:22:19 Read by: Kara Shallenberg
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 * Book 21 - 00:27:05 Read by: Chris Hawk
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 * Book 22 - 00:30:25 Read by: Chris Hawk
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 * Book 23 - 00:27:14 Read by: Denny Sayers
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 * Book 24 - 00:38:48 Read by: Denny Sayers
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http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/Eng9/homer.html http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/

Homer wrote epics: =Epic poetry= ===An **epic** (from [|Greek]: //έπος// or //επικό// "word, story, poem"[|[1]]) is a lengthy [|narrative poem], ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.[|[2]] [|Oral poetry] may qualify as an epic, and [|Albert Lord] and [|Milman Parry] have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form. Nonetheless, epics have been written down at least since [|Homer], and the works of [|Vyasa], [|Virgil], [|Dante Alighieri] and [|John Milton] would be unlikely to have survived without being written down. The first epics are known as primary, or original, epics. Epics that attempt to imitate these like Virgil's //Aeneid// and Milton's //Paradise Lost// are known as literary, or secondary, epics.===

Narrative poems are a form of art. Narrative poetry is among the oldest, and perhaps //the// oldest, genre of poetry. Much of the earliest literary works we have from many literatures, from the epic of [|Gilgamesh] to those of [|Homer], in [|Old English poetry] and [|Old Norse poetry], or the [|Sanskrit] poem the //[|Mahabarata]//, consist of narrative poems. Many scholars of Homer, from [|Quintus Smyrnaeus] forward, have concluded that his tales of the //[|Iliad]// and //[|Odyssey]// were composed from compilations of shorter narrative poems that related individual episodes, and which were more suitable for an evening's entertainment.
 * Narrative poetry** is [|poetry] that has a plot. The poems may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. It is usually nondramatic, with objective regular scheme and meter.[|[1]] Narrative poems include [|epics], [|ballads], [|idylls] and [|lays].