The Iliad (Pope Translation): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Iliad (Pope Translation), 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 by Homer. (Translated by Alexander Pope.) Read in English by Steven R. Perkins; Jan Moorehouse Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by some the greatest act of translation in English. Its power sweeps the reader along through an epic tale that begins with the wrath of Achilles and ends with the burial of Hector, breaker of horses. (Introduction by Steve Perkins)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Iliad (Pope Translation)
• Author credits: Homer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 19:11:15

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• epic poetry
• Classics
• Trojan War

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Introduction — 1:01:41
2. 01 - Pope's Preface — 52:10
3. 02 - Book 1 — 44:43
4. 03 - Book 2 Part 1 — 34:37
5. 04 - Book 2 Part 2 — 26:45
6. 05 - Book 3 — 33:22
7. 06 - Book 4 — 34:57
8. 07 - Book 5 — 59:59
9. 08 - Book 6 — 38:00
10. 09 - Book 7 — 34:29
11. 10 - Book 8 — 40:04
12. 11 - Book 9 — 46:40
13. 12 - Book 10 — 37:45
14. 13 - Book 11 — 53:59
15. 14 - Book 12 — 32:07
16. 15 - Book 13 — 56:21
17. 16 - Book 14 — 33:48
18. 17 - Book 15 — 49:54
19. 18 - Book 16 — 57:13
20. 19 - Book 17 — 45:07
21. 20 - Book 18 — 37:39
22. 21 - Book 19 — 25:41
23. 22 - Book 20 — 31:27
24. 23 - Book 21 — 38:12

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