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So Laeya--the Canaanite goddess Athirat masked in human form--asks after a crucial battle. Situated in the interimperial turmoil of the Late Bronze Age, Canaad follows this heroine's journey as it dovetails with that of Aqhat, a refugee from the Levantine coast. After tragedy casts Aqhat into the desert, a prophecy affords him the opportunity to slay three deities before the year's end and thereby become divine himself.

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to En un lugar de la Mancha and experience the compelling world of Don Quixote.

Lejos de Roma trata sobre el exilio del poeta romano Ovidio. Se acude a la historia pero no se agota en ella. Está atravesada de erudición, erotismo y poesía. Pero estos elementos no son un obstáculo. Al contrario, ayudan a construir una visión contemporánea de una las grandes figuras del exilio literario. Conformada por capítulos breves, trazados con exquisitez y precisión, Lejos de Roma apuesta por una nueva forma de abordar la historia.

Alexander Pope was celebrated for his command of classical Greek and produced seminal translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Prior to the preparation of these translations, Pope took advantage of his mastery of the classical style and also his waspish wit to compose a burlesque epic about the theft of a lock of hair. The incident that inspired Pope was related to him by his friend John Caryll. Lord Petre had cut off a lock of the hair of Arabella Fermor, whom he was courting at the time, without asking the lady's permission.

Xsterminator's inc is the text version of a spokenstoryword which is a rap-poem that tells a story and uses the voice as the instrument. It includes an audio version and the two should be taken together.

The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well, it is in the form of a poetic dialogue between the epic's hero, Arjuna, and his friend Krishna, believed to be an incarnation of God.

The third installment of Tserna Raizel's poetry and short story series explores themes of global unrest, allegorical fantasy and personal growth in a new light. Following a writing hiatus, Tserna is back to challenge our perspectives and her own.

The tale of King Alfred, the Christian king who in 878AD battled a Viking invasion that had conquered the rest of England and burnt some cakes. He then became the last holdout of resistance against the invaders and forced the conversion of the Danish king Guthrum to Christianity after the battle of Ethandun.

Christina Rossetti's long narrative poem about two innocent sisters, Lizzie and Laura, tempted by the delicious, magical fruit sold by goblin merchants as they walk through the glen....

Великий шумерский эпос, появившийся на свет несколько тысячелетий назад, передаваемый из уст в уста, а затем выгравированный на камне, кажется настолько далеким от современного человека, насколько это возможно. Однако благодаря прозаическому переложению историка и писателя Анджея Иконникова-Галицкого "Гильгамеш, сын Лугальбанды" превращается из древней недостижимой легенды в близкую, понятную и невероятно увлекательную историю. Иконников-Галицкий подарил этому эпосу новую жизнь, а мы - голос, ведь аудиоверсию прозаического пересказа блестяще исполнил Александр Гаврилин.

«Песнь о Нибелунгах» – один из самых фундаментальных эпосов мировой культуры наряду с «Илиадой», «Одиссеей», «Беовульфом», «Калевалой». Эта знаменитая германская поэма была написана неизвестным средневековым автором более 800 лет назад, но ее великая трагедия и великая красота трогает сердца и сегодня. В центре насыщенного и драматичного сюжета – женитьба героя-драконоборца Зигфрида на бургундской принцессе Кримхильде.

Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.

You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.

Ion is a very short Platonic dialogue between Socrates and a rhapsode by the name of Ion who specializes in reciting the poetry of Homer. The dialogue explores the nature of poetic and artistic inspiration in a most playful way.

Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy , the "Inferno" (or "Hell"), begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path". Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblical life expectancy of 70, lost in a dark wood, assailed by beasts he cannot evade, and unable to find the straight way to salvation. Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a deep place where the sun is silent, Dante is at last rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld.

Purgatory is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, except for the last four cantos at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante's guide.

Durante degli Alighieri, usually referred to simply as Dante, was born in Italy, and lived from c. 1265 to c. 1321. He was a major poet during the Middle Ages. He wrote the famous Divine Comedy, which was originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia). The work was later christened Divina by Boccaccio. It is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin, and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem about a sailor who shot an albatross and the woe that followed him afterwards. Narrated by professional voice actor Jake Phillips, host of The Cultured Bumpkin literature podcast.

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts.