Greek Literature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Greek Literature by Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 2:38:42 running time and a link to listen.
Greek Literature, credited to Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Greek Literature by Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard. Read in English by Devorah Allen; Heather Eney; Jeremy Silver; Emily Maynard; Jennifer Wilson; Katina Papadakis "The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a liberal education. The Greek language, naturally flexible and rich in poetical words, becomes in the hands of the great writers a medium of unequalled force, clearness, and adaptability, able to express as well the highest aspirations of the poet as the subtlest shades of philosophical argument or the most abstruse technicalities. The books of Greece have passed the critical selection of the ages, and the student, unencumbered by masses of inferior material, can approach the works of acknowledged masters, the true fountain-head of European culture." - Summary taken from the Introduction
Recording facts
- Recording title: Greek Literature
- Author credits: Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 2:38:42
Catalogue topics
- homer
- classics
- plato
- greece
- aristotle
- herodotus
- Thucydides
- demosthenes
Track guide
- 00 - Introduction — 3:08
- 01 - Homer and the Epic — 18:46
- 02 - Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic Poetry — 20:42
- 03 - Tragedy — 24:27
- 04 - Comedy — 8:31
- 05 - Early Greek Prose: Herodotus, Thucydides — 25:54
- 06 - Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle — 22:28
- 07 - Oratory: Isocrates, Demosthenes — 12:56
- 08 - The Hellenistic and Roman Ages — 21:50
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