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  1. 07/13/2023

    Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox

    Please visit 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

  2. 06/01/2023

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

    Please visit 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.

  3. 02/28/2023

    Anaximander: And the Birth of Science by Carlo Rovelli

    Please visit 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.

    5h 42m

  4. 01/03/2023

    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 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.

  5. 12/06/2022

    Samsara: Enter The Valley of Gods: Enter The Valley of Gods by Saksham Garg

    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Samsara: Enter The Valley of Gods: Enter The Valley of Gods Author: Saksham Garg Narrator: Ranjit Mdgavkar, Pallavi Bharti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: What if you came face to face with the gods? Phones stop working. Smartwatches die. And arms start glowing with blue scars. This is what happens to Aman Chandra and ten other Souls of Samsara when they are kidnapped from modern-day India and transported to a hidden valley in the Himalayas. In this realm of magic, home to Hindu gods, immortal yogis and mythical beasts, the mission is clear for the Souls of Samsara: to learn the ancient art of yogic sorcery and prepare for a treacherous journey not many can survive. But why must they go on this journey? And how are the gods connected to it all?  Before they get any answers, the Souls of Samsara realize that there is a larger scheme at play. The king of the gods has passed a controversial order. And Aman must make a tough decision that will change not just his life but the fate of an entire nation . .

  6. 11/08/2022

    The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Author: E. M. Berens Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: Discover Ancient Greece and Rome like never before with this compendium that begins with creation myth of Uranus and Gaea and includes descriptions and tales of gods both major and minor, as well as mythical creatures and other divinities. Author and scholar E.M. Berens also details how the people of ancient Greece and Rome worshiped, covering sacred sites and customs, as well as their significance. Also included are well over a dozen key legends: the punishment of Prometheus, the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and many others. Berens's seminal work offers something for anyone interested in Greek and Roman mythology, whether they are just beginning to learn or are looking to add to already established knowledge.

  7. 10/27/2022

    World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction by David A. Leeming

    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Author: David A. Leeming Narrator: Andy Ingalls Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger trans-cultural issues such as the place of the human species in creation or the nature of deity as a concept. World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction is organized around the universal motifs. Creation, the Flood, the Hero Quest, the Trickster/Culture Hero, the Pantheons, the High God, the Great Goddess. Veteran mythology scholar David Leeming examines examples of each motif from a variety of cultures—Greek, Egyptian, Norse, American Indian, African, Polynesian, Jewish, Christian, Hindu—treating them as reflections of the cultures that 'dreamed' them. He compares and analyzes them, exposing their universal significance and creating a 'world mythology.'

    3h 58m

  8. 07/26/2022

    Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor

    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities Author: Adrienne Mayor Narrator: Nancy Crane, Adrienne Mayor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Ancient Mythology Publisher's Summary: Adrienne Mayor and Nancy Crane narrate this treasury of astonishing mythic marvels Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes, and hidden gems from antiquity, medieval, and modern times. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a treasury of fifty of her most amazing and amusing discoveries. The book explores such subjects as how mirages inspired legends of cities in the sky; the true identity of winged serpents in ancient Egypt; how ghost ships led to the discovery of the Gulf Stream; and the beauty secrets of ancient Amazons. Other pieces examine Arthur Conan Doyle's sea serpent and Geronimo's dragon; Flaubert's obsession with ancient Carthage; ancient tattooing practices; and the strange relationship between wine goblets and women's breasts since the times of Helen of Troy and Marie Antoinette. And there's much, much more. Showcasing Mayor's trademark passion not to demythologize myths, but to uncover the fascinating truths buried beneath them, Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a wonder cabinet of delightful curiosities.

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