The Iliad (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Iliad (Version 2), credited to Homer, 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 The Iliad (Version 2) by Homer. (Translated by Samuel Butler.) Read in English 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Iliad (Version 2)
• Author credits: Homer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 14:08:44

Catalogue topics

• epic poetry
• trojan war
• classical literature
• greek -- translations into english
• achilles (mythological character)

Track guide

1. 01 - Book 1 — 34:16
2. 02 - Book 2 — 48:31
3. 03 - Book 3 — 23:46
4. 04 - Book 4 — 28:39
5. 05 - Book 5 — 47:32
6. 06 - Book 6 — 27:35
7. 07 - Book 7 — 24:52
8. 08 - Book 8 — 29:02
9. 09 - Book 9 — 38:39
10. 10 - Book 10 — 29:34
11. 11 - Book 11 — 46:44
12. 12 - Book 12 — 25:00
13. 13 - Book 13 — 45:53
14. 14 - Book 14 — 28:32
15. 15 - Book 15 — 39:32
16. 16 - Book 16 — 48:56
17. 17 - Book 17 — 39:28
18. 18 - Book 18 — 34:01
19. 19 - Book 19 — 23:11
20. 20 - Book 20 — 28:24
21. 21 - Book 21 — 33:59
22. 22 - Book 22 — 29:46
23. 23 - Book 23 — 47:52
24. 24 - Book 24 — 45:00

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