The Iliad: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Iliad, 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 Homer's Iliad translated by Samuel Butler, read by LibriVox volunteers. The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language, making it the first work of European literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, multiple authors. The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Iliun, or Troy, by the Greeks. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Iliad
• Author credits: Homer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 14:29:43

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• poetry
• Ancient Greece
• Greece
• Homer
• Iliad
• mythology

Track guide

1. 01 - The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon — 32:42
2. 02 - Agammemnon's Dream — 44:17
3. 03 - Paris Challenges Menelaus — 24:07
4. 04 - A Quarrel in Olympus — 28:40
5. 05 - The exploits of Diomed — 46:24
6. 06 - Hector and Andromache — 26:41
7. 07 - Hector and Ajax Fight — 24:14
8. 08 - The Victory of the Trojans — 33:55
9. 09 - The Embassy to Achilles — 38:59
10. 10 - Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies — 31:34
11. 11 - Agamemnon's Day of Glory — 52:49
12. 12 - The Trojans Break the Wall — 24:04
13. 13 - Neptune helps the Achaeans — 41:20
14. 14 - Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home — 34:37
15. 15 - Apollo Heals Hector — 48:49
16. 16 - Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles — 49:10
17. 17 - The Light around the Body of Patroclus — 35:44
18. 18 - The Shield of Achilles — 34:34
19. 19 - Achilles Goes Out to Fight — 26:11
20. 20 - Achilles fights Aeneas — 30:14
21. 21 - Achilles Drives the Trojans Back — 36:40
22. 22 - The death of Hector — 30:41
23. 23 - The Funeral Games of Patroclus — 49:28
24. 24 - Priam Ransoms Hector's Body — 44:04

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