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Books that go well with Classical Conversations
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# 03 – The Struggle For An Education
# 05 – The Reconstruction Period
# 06 – Black Race And Red Race
# 08 – Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House
# 09 – Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights
# 10 – A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw
# 11 – Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
# 13 – Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech
# 14 – The Atlanta Exposition Address
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Total running time: 15 hours
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Total running time: 14 hours, 30 minutes
# 01 – The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
# 03 – Paris Challenges Menelaus
# 08 – The Victory of the Trojans
# 09 – The Embassy to Achilles
# 10 – Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies
# 11 – Agamemnon’s Day of Glory
# 12 – The Trojans Break the Wall
# 13 – Neptune helps the Achaeans
# 14 – Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home
# 16 – Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles
# 17 – The Light around the Body of Patroclus
# 19 – Achilles Goes Out to Fight
# 21 – Achilles Drives the Trojans Back
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Summary from Librivox: Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then appears and charges Claudius with ‘murder most foul.’ Hamlet is called to revenge his father’s death: but will he be able to act before it is too late?
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Run time: 4 hours, 3 minutes
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Running time: 14 hours, 54 minutes
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Summary from Librivox: Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the tenth edition of the first volume, The Age of Fable. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and eastern myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. (Summary by Kathleen Gatliffe for Librivox)
This book is often used as a high school text. Although the Wikimedia summary says it is appropriate for children, you might consider one of our other mythology titles to be more interesting for younger children.
Stories of Gods and Heroes
The Age of Fable: Publishers and Authors Prefaces
The Age of Fable: Chapter 1, Introduction
Chapter 2, Prometheus and Pandora
Chapter 3, Apollo and Daphne–Pyramus and Thisbe–Cephalus and Procris
Chapter 4, Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto–Diana and Actaeon–Latona and the Rustics
Chapter 6, Midas–Baucis and Philemon
Chapter 7, Proserpine–Glaucus and Scylla
Chapter 8, Pygmalion–Dryope–Venus and Adonis–Apollo and Hyacinthus
Chapter 10, Vertumnus and Pomon–Iphis and Anaxarete
Chapter 12, Cadmus–The Mermidons
Chapter 13, Nisus and Scylla–Echo and Narcissus–Clytie–Hero and Leander
Chapter 14, Minerva and Arachne–Niobe
Chapter 15, Graeae and Gorgons–Perseus and Medusa–Atlas–Andromeda
Chapter 16, Monsters and Giants–Sphinx–Pegasus and Chimaera–Centaurs–Griffin–Pygmies
Chapter 17, The Golden Fleece–Medea
Chapter 18, Meleager and Atalanta
Chapter 19, Hercules–Hebe and Ganymede
Chapter 20, Theseus and Daedalus–Castor and Pollux–Festivals and Games
Chapter 21, Bacchus and Ariadne
Chapter 22, The Rural Deities–The Dryads and Erisichthon–Rhoecus–Water Deities–Camenae–Winds
Chapter 23, Achelous and Hercules–Admetus and Alcestis–Antigone–Penelope
Chapter 24, Orpheus and Eurydice–Aristaeus–Amphion–Linus–Thamyris–Marsyas–Melampus–Musaeus
Chapter 25, Arion–Ibycus–Simonides–Sappho
Chapter 26, Endymion–Orion–Aurora and Tithonus–Acis and Galatea
Chapter 28, The Fall of Troy–Return of the Greeks–Orestesa nd Electra
Chapter 30, The Phaeacians–Fate of the Suitors
Chapter 31, Adventures of Aeneas–The Harpies–Dido–Palinurus
Chapter 32, The Infernal Regions–The Sibyl
Chapter 33, Aeneas in Italy–Camilla–Evander–Nisus and Euryalus–Mezentius–Turnus
Chapter 34, Pythagoras–Egyptian Deities–Oracles
Chapter 35, Origin of Mythology–Statues of Gods and Goddesses–Poets of Mythology
Chapter 36, Monsters (modern)–The Phoenix–Basilisk–Unicorn–Salamander
Chapter 37, Eastern Mythology–Zoroaster–Hindu Mythology–Castes–Buddha–The Grand Lama–Prester John
Chapter 38, Northern Mythology–Valhalla–The Valkyrior
This version of Beowulf, adapted for children, may be a good introduction for older students before reading the unabridged work.
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Total running time: 1 hour, 56 minutes
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Preface: About this book
Chapter 1, How Grendel the Ogre Warred with the Dane Folk
Chapter 2, How Beowulf the Goth came to Daneland
Chapter 3, Beowulf Telleth How He Warred with the Sea Folk
Chapter 4, How Beowulf Overcame Grendel the Ogre
Chapter 5, How the Water Witch Warred with the Dane Folk
Chapter 6, How Beowulf Overcame the Water Witch
Chapter 7, How Beowulf Returned to his Own Land
Chapter 8, How the Fire Dragon warred with the Goth Folk
Chapter 9, How Beowulf Overcame the Dragon
This radio drama is a fun introduction to the Fall of Troy.
You are There: The Fall of Troy
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Chapter 01
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Note: This book has some sections which parents may consider objectionable. Please consult your trusted curriculum provider, and see our note about High School Literature. Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources which could be used in a study of Gulliver’s Travels. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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00 – Introduction
Part 1
02 – Part 1, Chapter 2
03 – Part 1, Chapter 3
Part 2
09 – Part 2, Chapter 1
10 – Part 2, Chapter 2
Part 3
Part 4
28 – Part 4, Chapter 1
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General Mills Radio Adventure Theater: The Red Badge of Courage
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Alice in wonderland lux theater
Alice in Wonderland: Favorite Story
Alice in Wonderland part 1, presented by The Columbia Workshop
Alice in Wonderland part 2, presented by The Columbia Workshop
Alice Through the Looking Glass part 1, presented by The Columbia Workshop
Alice Through the Looking Glass part 2, presented by The Columbia Workshop
Click here to see a downloadable study guide from CurrClick which could be used with Robinson Crusoe. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Internet archive page on Librivox
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11 Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand
16 Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals
Summary: Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems. (Summary by Caeristhiona for Librivox)
This is a recording of the text of Milton’s first edition of 1667, which had ten books, unlike the second edition (1674) which was redivided into twelve books in the manner of Virgil’s Aeneid.
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Total running time: 9 hours, 42 minutes
Paradise Lost: 01 – Book One, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 02 – Book One, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 03 – Book Two, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 04 – Book Two, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 05 – Book Three, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 06 – Book Three, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 07 – Book Four, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 08 – Book Four, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 09 – Book Five, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 10 – Book Five, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 11 – Book Six, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 12 – Book Six, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 13 – Book Seven, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 14 – Book Seven, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 15 – Book Eight, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 16 – Book Eight, Part 2
Paradise Lost: 17 – Book Nine, Part 1
Paradise Lost: 18 – Book Nine, Part 2
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