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Audiobooks Dimension presents Ion by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 380 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus fragments, Manuscript Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________ The Ion (Ἴων) is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan is simple; the dramatic interest consists entirely in the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent vanity and childlike enthusiasm of the rhapsode Ion. The Ion, like the other earlier Platonic Dialogues, is a mixture of jest and earnest, in which no definite result is obtained, but some Socratic or Platonic truths are allowed dimly to appear. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Ion' book : https://amzn.to/3Ud6Y62 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________ #Ion #Socrates #Plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Menexenus by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 380 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus fragments, Manuscript Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________ Menexenus (Μενέξενος) by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. Socrates meets a friend who informs him that the Athenians are about to appoint an orator to pronounce the funeral eulogium of those who have been slain in war. Socrates responds in a tone of playful exaggeration, extolling the powers of the public speakers ; and then, in answer to Menexenus, allows that he does not think it a difficult matter to speak on such a subject. He himself could speak if he were chosen. Nay more, he has learned a speech from Aspasia which would be suitable on this very occasion. The speech itself follows, and is indeed the main part of the work. Its supposed date is after the ‘ Peace of Antalcidas’, long after the real Socrates was dead. The Menexenus consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, referencing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Socrates here delivers to Menexenus a speech that he claims to have learned from Aspasia, a consort of Pericles and prominent female Athenian intellectual. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Menexenus' book : https://amzn.to/3xScD9R Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________ #Menexenus #Socrates #Plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Euthyphro by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 380 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus fragments, Manuscript Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________ Euthyphro (Εὐθύφρων) by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects such as the meaning of piety and justice. As is common with Plato's earliest dialogues, it ends in aporia. In the Euthyphro, Socrates is awaiting his trial for impiety. But before the trial begins, Plato would like to put the world on their trial, and convince them of ignorance in that very matter touching which Socrates is accused. An incident which may perhaps really have occurred in the family of Euthyphro, a learned Athenian diviner and soothsayer, furnishes the occasion of the discussion. There seem to be altogether three aims or interests in this little Dialogue: (1) the dialectical development of the idea of piety; (2) the antithesis of true and false religion, which is carried to a certain extent only; (3) the defence of Socrates. The subtle connection with the Apology and the Crito; the holding back of the conclusion, as in the Charmides, Lysis, Laches, and other Dialogues; the deep insight into the religious world; the dramatic power and play of the two characters; the inimitable irony, are reasons for believing that the Euthyphro is a genuine Platonic writing. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Euthyphro' book : https://amzn.to/4cV6dHe Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________ #Euthyphro #Socrates #Plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Lysis (or Friendship) by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 380 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musicians : The Turquoise Moon, Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________________ Lysis (Λύσις) is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (φιλία), often translated as friendship, while the word's original content was of a much larger and more intimate bond. No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, 'What is Friendship?' any more than in the Charmides to the question, 'What is Temperance?' There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middle-aged; in the Lysis he is advanced in years. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Lysis' book : https://amzn.to/43NqGcW Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #lysis #socrates #plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Laches (or Courage) by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 380 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________________ Laches (Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept of courage. In the discussion of the main thesis of the Dialogue—'What is Courage?' the antagonism of the two characters is still more clearly brought out; and in this, as in the preliminary question, the truth is parted between them. In this Dialogue the contrast between the mode of cross-examination which is practised by Laches and by Socrates, and also the manner in which the definition of Laches is made to approximate to that of Nicias, are worthy of attention. The Dialogue offers one among many examples of the freedom with which Plato treats facts. For the scene must be supposed to have occurred between 424 BCE, the year of the battle of Delium, and 418 BCE, the year of the battle of Mantinea, at which Laches fell. But if Socrates was more than seventy years of age at his trial in 399 BCE (see Apology), he could not have been a young man at any time after the battle of Delium. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Laches' book : https://amzn.to/4aqsEC6 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #laches #socrates #plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Charmides by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 388 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Tencher Music, Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________________ Charmides presented by Socrates himself, it's a discussion on temperance. Socrates, tell how, returning from the battle, he encounters Chaerephon, who leads him to Critias, a political figure. Socrates questions how philosophy has been in its absence, and inquires about wisdom and beauty in youth. He meet Chamides, a handsome youth, and the dialogue on what is temperance ensues. No formal conclusion is reach, but many aspects are considered. It opened at the Palaestra, wrestling school of Taureas, which is near the Porch of the King Archon. Temperance, a peculiarly Greek notion, which may also be rendered Moderation, Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without completely exhausting by all these terms the various associations of the word. It may be described as the harmony or due proportion of the higher and lower elements of human nature which 'makes a man his own master'. In this Dialogue may be noted 1. The Greek ideal of beauty and goodness, the vision of the fair soul in the fair body, realised in the beautiful Charmides 2. The true conception of medicine as a science of the whole as well as the parts, and of the mind as well as the body, which is playfully intimated in the story of the Thracian 3. The tendency of the age to verbal distinctions, which here, as in the Protagoras and Cratylus, are ascribed to the ingenuity of Prodicus; and to interpretations or rather parodies of Homer or Hesiod, which are eminently characteristic of Plato and his contemporaries 4. The germ of an ethical principle contained in the notion that temperance is 'doing one's own business,' which in the Republic (such is the shifting character of the Platonic philosophy) is given as the definition, not of temperance, but of justice 5. The impatience which is exhibited by Socrates of any definition of temperance in which an element of science or knowledge is not included 6. The beginning of metaphysics and logic implied in the two questions: whether there can be a science of science, and whether the knowledge of what you know is the same as the knowledge of what you do not know; and also in the distinction between 'what you know' and 'that you know,' here too is the first conception of an absolute self-determined science as well as the first suggestion of the difficulty of the abstract and concrete, and one of the earliest anticipations of the relation of subject and object, and of the subjective element in knowledge—a 'rich banquet' of metaphysical questions in which we 'taste of many things.' 7. And still the mind of Plato, having snatched for a moment at these shadows of the future, quickly rejects them: thus early has he reached the conclusion that there can be no science which is a 'science of nothing' (Parmen.). 8. The conception of a science of good and evil also first occurs here, an anticipation of the Philebus and Republic as well as of moral philosophy in later ages. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Charmides' book : https://amzn.to/3ILaoHO Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #charmides #socrates #plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents Crito by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 399 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________________ A MONTH has passed since Socrates was sentenced to death for impiety and corrupting the young, and still be waits chained in his cell in prison. For his trial took place just as the sacred ship, bearing the yearly thank offering of Athens to the ancient shrine of Apollo on the island of Delos, was being prepare for her sailing. The offering commemorates a famous event in the city's legendary history, its delivery by the hero Theseus with the god's aid from the savage tyranny of the king of Crete, who required an annual tribute of the best Athenian youth to satisfy his man-devouring Minotaur. The period from the time when the priest at Athens crowns the ship before its departure until it returns to harbor is a 'holy season', during which the city must not be polluted by the taking of human life. So Socrates, like any other convicted criminal, must wait to die until the vessel is back at anchor. But now the weeks of respite are nearly over. The ship has been sighed off Sunium, the southernmost promontory of Attica, less than thirty-five miles by sea from the Peiraeus, the port of Athens. In another day it should arrive. His wealthy friend, Crito, offers to finance his escape. But Socrates, sitting in his prison cell, argues although the judgements of his fellow Athenian may be wrong, escape is not an appropriate action, even though it would save his life. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Crito' book : https://amzn.to/3IukrAZ Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #crito #socrates #plato

Audiobooks Dimension presents The Apology of Socrates by Plato Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Sound Effect, Music Author : Plato (Πλάτων) Written : 399 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Dialogue Translator : Benjamin Jowett Reader : David Rintoul Musician : Nature's Eye Editor : Audiobooks Dimension _________________________________ The Apology (Ἀπολογία) presents the trial of Socrates (Σωκράτους) against the charge of impiety and corruption of the youths of Athen. This is his defence and his final statement to his accusers. It took place in 399 BC, and it is said that Plato was there. Nevertheless, Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and translator, comment that was "Some passages may reflect the actual words of Socrates. The Apology is an ideal rather than a literal truth." Jowett writes "It is an elaborate conposition, quite as much so in fact as one of the Dialogues. It is true to the character of Socrates, it breathes the spirit of Socrates, but has been cast anew in the mould of Plato." Plato's Apology is generally regarded as the most reliable source of information about Socrates's trail. Except for two brief exchanges with Meletus (Μέλητος), where the monologue becomes a dialogue, the text is written in the first person from Socrates's point of view, as though it were his actual speech at the trial. During the course of the speech, Socrates twice mentions Plato as being present. Socrates' speech proves how he was a master orator, who is eloquent, persuasive and wise. Film adaptation : Socrates (1971) https://amzn.to/3TmitJ8 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Plato's Apology' book : https://amzn.to/49Xifxq Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #apology #socrates #plato

AudioBooks Dimension presents The Twelve Labours of Heracles Dramatize Audiobook with Text, Illustrations, Music and Sound Effect Author : Peisander (Πείσανδρος) Written : 640 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Fragments Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Adventure, Ancient Greece, Epic, Greek Mythology, Historical Fiction Translator : Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972) Reader : Anthony Quayle Musician : Natalia Kolesnikova, Dmitrii Paderin Editor : AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Labours of Heracles (ἆθλοι) are a series of tasks carried out by the greatest of the Greek heroes Heracles ( Ἡρακλῆς). They were accomplished in the service of King Eurystheus (Εὐρυσθεύς). Heracles (Hercules) was the son born by the mortal woman Alcmene (Ἀλκμήνη) after her affair with Zeus (Ζεύς), the king of the gods, who had disguised himself as her husband Amphitryon (Ἀμφιτρύων). The child was originally given the name Alcides (Alcaeus) by his parents. Alcmene, fearing the jealousy of Zeus's wife Hera (Ἥρα), exposed her infant son, who was taken by either Zeus or his daughter Athena (Ἀθήνη) (the protectress of heroes) to Hera, who did not recognize Heracles and nursed him out of pity. Heracles suckled so strongly that he caused Hera pain, she pushed him away, and her milk sprayed across the heavens, forming the Milky Way. But with divine milk, Heracles had acquired supernatural strength. Either Zeus or Athena brought the infant back to his mother, and he was subsequently raised by his parents. The establishment of a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an epic poem, written by Peisander (7th to 6th centuries BC), now lost. Adaptation Movie : Hercules (1958) - https://amzn.to/3SE7xoL Hercules (1983) - https://amzn.to/3u5lC6n Hercules (1997) - https://amzn.to/3HYstSt Hercules and Xena (1998) - https://amzn.to/3ShICXJ Hercules (2014) - https://amzn.to/3Okcvpd The Legend of Hercules (2014) - https://amzn.to/49ihTRP TV Series : Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995 - 1999) - https://amzn.to/3Onv8Ze Young Hercules (1998) - https://amzn.to/480fOZw Hercules (2005) - https://amzn.to/3Sll0kP _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Twelve Labours of Heracles' book : https://amzn.to/3vXmWJ3 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #heracles, #hercules, #labours

AudioBooks Dimension presents Argonautica full audiobook with text, illustrations Author : Apollonius Rhodius (Apollonius of Rhodes / Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος) Written : 300 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Adventure, Ancient Greece, Epic, Greek Mythology, Historical Fiction Translator : R. C. Seaton Reader : Charlton Griffin Editor : AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ Argonautica Dramatize Audiobook Chapter: 00:00:00 Book I 01:35:37 Book II 03:04:43 Book III 04:43:59 Book IV _________________________________ Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά / Argonautika) also known as Jason And The Golden Fleece / Jason And The Argonauts / Argo, is the only surviving Hellenistic epic, tells the story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. The story takes place in the era before the Trojan War, when Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς / Hercules) was still a mortal and Achilles (Achilleus / Ἀχιλλεύς) was still an infant. The main character Jason (Ἰάσων) was the son of Aeson (Αἴσων), descendant of Aeolus (Αἴολος), and rightful heir of the throne of Iolcus (Ἰωλκός). He was raised by a centaur Chiron (Χείρων) since baby until he was an adult, at which time he returned to Iolcus. But he was not welcome by King Pelias (Πελίας), who usurped Jason's father. Pelias gave Jason an impossible quest, to fetch the Golden Fleece from the King Aeetes (Αἰήτης) of Colchis (Κολχίς). Instead of refusal, Jason assembled a band of chiefest heroes to aid him on his epic adventure, this group was the Argonauts (Ἀργοναῦται). The Golden Fleece is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, Chrysomallos (Χρυσόμαλλον δέρας). According to legend, two children of King Athamas (Ἀθάμας), Phrixus (Φρίξος) and Helle (Ἕλλη), were to be sacrificed after their step-mother convinced their father it was necessary. But before the sacrifice took place, Nephele (Νεφέλη) sent the holy ram to took the children away, travelling a long distance through the air. Unfortunately Helle fell from the ram during the flight and either drowned or was rescued by Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν). The ocean where she dropped bears her name Hellespontus (Ἑλλήσποντος). Phrixus continued his journey and arrived in Colchis, an area in the southern Caucasus on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. He was welcomed by the King Aeetes of Colchis, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the Golden Fleece of the Golden Ram, which the king kept it at the sacred grove of Ares, guarded by a sleepless & deathless dragon. The Tale of the Argonauts had been told often before in verse and prose, and many authors’ names are given in the Scholia to Apollonius, but their works have perished. The best known earlier account that we have is that in Pindar’s fourth Pythian ode, from which Apollonius has taken many details. The subject was one for an epic poem, for its unity might have been found in the working out of the expiation due for the crime of Athamas; but this motive is barely mentioned by our author. Adaptations ; Movie : Jason And The Argonauts (1963) - https://amzn.to/3svssRI Mini Series : Jason And The Argonauts (2000) - https://amzn.to/3SBox07 _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Argonautica' book : https://amzn.to/3QSAywZ Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@AudiobooksDimension _________________________________ #Argonautica #Argo #Argonauts

AudioBooks Dimension present The Battle of Frogs and Mice (Battle of the Frogs and Mice | Batrachomyomachia | Βατραχομυομαχία) full audiobook with text, illustrations Author : Homer (Ὅμηρος) Written : 800 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Comedy, Comic Epic, Epic Parody, Fable, Fiction Reader : Arthur Krolman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice | Batrakhomakhia | Βατραχομυομαχία) is our sole extant full example of epic parody. It is dated to the 6th through 4th centuries BCE or later. The poem’s contents indicate later composition or editing. Hellenistic sources attribute authorship to Homer (Ὅμηρος); later sources credit Pigres (Πίγρης) of Halicarnassus (Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός). Although there is insufficient evidence to place the Batrakhomuomachia in a specific performance context, as a later composition it probably drew on oral performances and textual editions for influence. Whether or not there was an oral tradition of epic parody separate from or prior to the Athenian context, it seems likely that there were regular conventions shaping the practice and performance of parody. ​ Close readings of the parody reveal a deep engagement with Homeric language and themes. The poem’s plot features a friendship between a frog and a mouse that, following the mouse’s death by falling from the frog’s back during a pond-crossing, results in heroic combat between their ‘tribes’, culminating in a mouse victory (aided by crabs sent by Zeus). The poem also features heroic genealogies, grandiose speeches, type-scenes, a use of paradeigma (e.g., Europa and Zeus), a divine council and divine intervention. At times, the poem may provide parody of the Iliad specifically. Recent scholarship has argued that the parody is engaged in serious—albeit indirect—literary criticism. Inconsistencies in the poem, as when combatants die only to reappear, have been seen by some as intentional imitations of a ‘nodding Homer’ rather than evidence of manuscript corruption. The poem is very funny at times and attests to deep engagement with different generic traditions, including animal fable, parodic animal epic, the language of tragedy and comedy, as well as traditional epic and myth. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice' book : https://amzn.to/3pYWY54 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Homer #Batrachomyomachia #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension present The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ/論語/论语) full audiobook with Text, illustrations, Author : Disciples of Confucius (孔夫子) Written : 475 ~ 221 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient China Original Media type : Bamboo Slips, Fragments, Patchwork, Paper Original Language : Classical Chinese Translator : Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans) Genre(s) : Ancient China, Collection, Conversations, Nonfiction, Philosophy Reader : 曉臻, 云杨, 晓伊 Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Analects of Confucius Audiobook Video Chapters; 00:00:00 - Text of The Analects 00:00:14 - Chapter 1 00:06:06 - Chapter 2 00:13:37 - Chapter 3 00:22:45 - Chapter 4 00:29:14 - Chapter 5 00:39:30 - Chapter 6 00:49:11 - Chapter 7 01:00:06 - Chapter 8 01:07:11 - Chapter 9 01:17:02 - Chapter 10 01:26:23 - Chapter 11 01:38:39 - Chapter 12 01:50:13 - Chapter 13 02:02:32 - Chapter 14 02:18:52 - Chapter 15 02:30:47 - Chapter 16 02:39:57 - Chapter 17 02:51:14 - Chapter 18 02:58:18 - Chapter 19 03:07:34 - Chapter 20 _________________________________ The Analects (論語; Lúnyǔ; meaning "Selected Sayings"), also known as the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Confucius, or the Lun Yu, is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475–221 BCE), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a "commentary" on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty. During the late Song dynasty (960–1279 AD) the importance of the Analects as a Chinese philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the "Four Books". The Analects has been one of the most widely-read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today. The Analects is the only place where we can actually encounter the real, living Confucius. The text, which consist of a discontinuous series of brief statements, short dialogues and anecdotes, was compiled by two successive generations of disciples (disciples and disciples of disciples), over some seventy-five years after Confucius's death—which means that the compilation was probably completed a little before, or around, 400 BC. The text is a patchwork: fragments from different hands have been stitched together, with uneven skill—there are some repetitions, interpolations, and contradictions; there are some puzzles and countless loopholes; but on the whole, there are very few stylistic anachronisms: the language and syntax of most of the fragments is coherent and pertains to the same period. Confucius lived in a period of historical transition, in an age of acute cultural crisis. In one fundamental respect, there was a certain similarity between his time and ours: he was witnessing the collapse of civilization—he saw his world sinking into violence and barbarity. Five hundred years before him, a universal feudal order had been established, unifying the entire civilized world: this was the achievement of one of China's greatest cultural heroes, the Duke of Zhou. But now the Zhou tradition was no longer operative, the Zhou world was falling apart. Confucius believed that Heaven had chosen him to become the spiritual heir to the Duke of Zhou, and that he should revive his grand design, restore the world order on a new ethical basis, and salvage the entire civilization. This audiobook feature 1/3 of The Analects of Confucius translation by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans). It's represent only The Text part in order to preserve the archaic impression that prevails in the Chinese. Therefore, for one who would plumb the depths of wisdom in The Analects, the Notes and Interpretations parts are indispensable. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy The Analects of Confucius book : https://amzn.to/3oroWG8 Audible : https://amzn.to/3VjziDV Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/40SE4Jt Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/3NwH7UK Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #analects #confucius #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension presents The Homeric Hymns by Homer full audiobook with text and illustrations Author : Homer (Ὅμηρος) Written : 800 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Epic Poem, Greek Mythology Reader : Arthur Krolman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Homeric Hymns by Homer Audiobook Chapter: 00:00:00 The Homeric Hymns 00:00:05 I. To Dionysus 00:01:39 II. To Demeter 00:35:03 III. To Delian Apollo 01:10:48 IV. To Hermes 01:49:03 V. To Aphrodite 02:08:40 VI. To Aphrodite 02:10:16 VII. To Dionysus 02:14:33 VIII. To Ares 02:15:54 IX. To Artemis 02:16:42 X. To Aphrodite 02:17:14 XI. To Athena 02:17:43 XII. To Hera 02:18:10 XIII. To Demeter 02:18:31 XIV. To Mother of Gods 02:19:03 XV. To Heracles 02:19:49 XVI. To Asclepius 02:20:18 XVII. To Dioscuri 02:20:47 XVIII. To Hermes 02:21:44 XIX. To Pan 02:25:08 XX. To Hephaestus 02:25:46 XXI. To Apollo 02:26:15 XXII. To Poseidon 02:26:52 XXIII. To Zeus 02:27:19 XXIV. To Hestia 02:27:45 XXV. To Muses & Apollo 02:28:21 XXVI. To Dionysus 02:29:23 XXVII. To Artemis 02:30:55 XXVIII. To Athena 02:32:09 XXIX. To Hestia 02:33:15 XXX. To Earth 02:34:48 XXXI. To Helios 02:36:21 XXXII. To Selene 02:37:50 XXXIII. To Dioscuri _________________________________ The Homeric Hymns (Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι) are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual Greek deities. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. While the modern scholarly consensus is that they were not written during the lifetime of Homer himself, they were uncritically attributed to him in antiquity. The poems are, in fact, of varied date and provenance, although the majority are most probably products of the archaic period (7th to 6th centuries BCE). The collection is incomplete; it contains major hymns to Demeter (Δημήτηρ), Apollo (Ἀπόλλων), Hermes (Ἑρμῆς), and Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη) but only short pieces to Zeus (Ζεύς), Hera (Ἥρα), Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν), Athena (Ἀθήνη), Artemis (Ἄρτεμις), Hephaestus (Ἥφαιστος), and Ares (Ἄρης); four of the Homeric Hymns (two to Demeter, three to Apollo, four to Hermes, and five to Aphrodite) contain developed narratives of episodes in the lives of the deities celebrated and stretch from 293 to 580 lines. The first Hymn to Dionysus (Διόνυσος) also contained an extended narrative of over 400 lines, but now survives only in fragments. There are two mid-length Hymns with narratives, seven to Dionysus (fifty-nine lines), and nineteen to Pan (Πάν) (forty-nine lines), but the rest of the poems in the corpus are short celebrations of divine powers consisting of between three and twenty-two lines. Critical attention has understandably focused most on the longer Homeric Hymns with extended narratives. The thirty-three hymns praise most of the major deities of Greek religion; at least the shorter ones may have served as preludes to the recitation of epic verse at festivals by professional rhapsodes: often the singer concludes by saying that now he will pass to another song. A thirty-fourth, To Hosts is not a hymn, but a reminder that hospitality is a sacred duty enjoined by the gods, a pointed reminder when coming from a professional rhapsode. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Homeric Hymns' book : https://amzn.to/3E4GzPW Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Homer #Hymns #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension present The Shield of Heracles (Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) full audiobook with text, illustrations Author : Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος) Written : 700 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Epic, Fiction, Greek Mythology Reader : Arthur Krolman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Shield of Heracles (The Shield of Herakles, Aspis Herakleous, Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) is a poem of 480 hexameter lines written by an unknown Greek poet in the style of Hesiod (lived 8th century BCE). It deals with the Greek hero Herakles (also known as Hercules) and his nephew Iolaus and their battle with Cycnus, son of the war-god Ares. It is unclear when the action of the poem takes place in the story of Heracles' life in myth and legend, but in the story Heracles and Iolaus are on their way to the city of Trachis (where Heracles and his second wife Deinara lived toward the end of their lives, but no mention is made of her or of any other events in the hero's life besides his birth) when they meet Cycnus and Ares. The poem was thought to be an original work by Hesiod but was already suspect as the work of another by around the 3rd century BCE. Some modern-day sources continue to attribute the work to Hesiod even though by now it has long been established as the work of another writing in Hesiod's style. The poem borrows heavily from Homer's Iliad, chapter 18, in which he describes the shield of Achilles. The author of The Shield of Heracles took some lines directly from Iliad and only modified others, but the majority of the poem is an original work. It was very popular in Greece, particularly Athens, in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, and the story inspired representations in art on vases and drinking vessels. For more description, please visit : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/2023/07/heracles-shield.html _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Shield of Heracles' book : https://amzn.to/3ruwCs7 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Heracles #Hercules #Hesiod

AudioBooks Dimension present Fragments of Heraclitus full audiobook with text and illustrations Author : Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος) Written : 515 ~ 475 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Fragments, Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Philip Wheelwright Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Quotations Reader : Alan Rickman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ Heraclitus's Fragments Audiobook Chapters; 00:00:00 - Chapter I 00:03:55 - Chapter II 00:05:38 - Chapter III 00:08:21 - Chapter IV 00:11:49 - Chapter V 00:15:55 - Chapter VI 00:19:59 - Chapter VII 00:23:54 - Chapter VIII _________________________________ Heraclitus(Ἡράκλειτος) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. Most of the ancient stories about him are thought to be later fabrications based on interpretations of the preserved fragments. His paradoxical philosophy and appreciation for wordplay and cryptic, oracular epigrams has earned him the epithets "the dark" and "the obscure" since antiquity. He was considered arrogant and depressed, a misanthrope who was subject to melancholia. Consequently, he became known as "the weeping philosopher" in contrast to the ancient philosopher Democritus(Δημόκριτος), who was known as "the laughing philosopher". The central idea of Heraclitus' philosophy is the unity of opposites and the concept of change. He also saw harmony and justice in strife. He viewed the world as constantly in flux, always "becoming" but never "being". This audiobook feature 1/2 of Heraclitus's Fragments book translation by Philip Wheelwright. It's represent only The Text part in order to preserve the archaic impression that prevails in the Greek. Therefore, for one who would plumb the depths of wisdom in Heraclitus's Fragments, the other half is indispensable. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy Heraclitus's Fragments book : https://amzn.to/3JyEyia Audible : https://amzn.to/3VjziDV Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/40SE4Jt Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/3NwH7UK Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Heraclitus #fragments #AudiobooksDimension

A collection of Aesop's fables in rhyme with morals for children in English full audiobook with text and illustrations presented by Audiobooks Dimension Author : Aesop [Αἴσωπος] (620 - 564 BC) Written : 600 - 570 BC Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus, Manuscripts Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Fable, Fairy Tale, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story Translator : Jefferys Taylor (1792 - 1853), Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) Reader : Noel Badrian, Denny Sayers Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension _________________________________ Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. In addition, there have been reinterpretations of the meaning of fables and changes in emphasis over time. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Follow the link below to see full video chapters ; https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/2023/03/aesop.html _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'AEsop's Fables' book : https://amzn.to/40mHkNI Audible : https://amzn.to/2GTezEE Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/35yKKDB Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/2RwLIbb The channel receives a small commission for purchases made using the affiliate links above. It doesn't cost you extra, so please feel free to buy everything. It is a great way to support the content and really helps out the channel. Thank you! #aesop #fable #audiobooksdimension

AudioBooks Dimension presents The Homeric Hymns by Homer dramatize audiobook with text, illustrations, music, sound effect Author : Homer (Ὅμηρος) Written : 800 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Epic Poem, Greek Mythology Reader : Arthur Krolman Music : @AthanKleopas, @MarimarKr, Petros Tabouris Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Homeric Hymns by Homer Audiobook Chapter: 00:00:00 The Homeric Hymns 00:00:05 I. To Dionysus 00:01:39 II. To Demeter 00:35:03 III. To Delian Apollo 01:10:48 IV. To Hermes 01:49:03 V. To Aphrodite 02:08:40 VI. To Aphrodite 02:10:16 VII. To Dionysus 02:14:33 VIII. To Ares 02:15:54 IX. To Artemis 02:16:42 X. To Aphrodite 02:17:14 XI. To Athena 02:17:43 XII. To Hera 02:18:10 XIII. To Demeter 02:18:31 XIV. To Mother of Gods 02:19:03 XV. To Heracles 02:19:49 XVI. To Asclepius 02:20:18 XVII. To Dioscuri 02:20:47 XVIII. To Hermes 02:21:44 XIX. To Pan 02:25:08 XX. To Hephaestus 02:25:46 XXI. To Apollo 02:26:15 XXII. To Poseidon 02:26:52 XXIII. To Zeus 02:27:19 XXIV. To Hestia 02:27:45 XXV. To Muses & Apollo 02:28:21 XXVI. To Dionysus 02:29:23 XXVII. To Artemis 02:30:55 XXVIII. To Athena 02:32:09 XXIX. To Hestia 02:33:15 XXX. To Earth 02:34:48 XXXI. To Helios 02:36:21 XXXII. To Selene 02:37:50 XXXIII. To Dioscuri _________________________________ The Homeric Hymns (Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι) are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual Greek deities. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. While the modern scholarly consensus is that they were not written during the lifetime of Homer himself, they were uncritically attributed to him in antiquity. The poems are, in fact, of varied date and provenance, although the majority are most probably products of the archaic period (7th to 6th centuries BCE). The collection is incomplete; it contains major hymns to Demeter (Δημήτηρ), Apollo (Ἀπόλλων), Hermes (Ἑρμῆς), and Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη) but only short pieces to Zeus (Ζεύς), Hera (Ἥρα), Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν), Athena (Ἀθήνη), Artemis (Ἄρτεμις), Hephaestus (Ἥφαιστος), and Ares (Ἄρης); four of the Homeric Hymns (two to Demeter, three to Apollo, four to Hermes, and five to Aphrodite) contain developed narratives of episodes in the lives of the deities celebrated and stretch from 293 to 580 lines. The first Hymn to Dionysus (Διόνυσος) also contained an extended narrative of over 400 lines, but now survives only in fragments. There are two mid-length Hymns with narratives, seven to Dionysus (fifty-nine lines), and nineteen to Pan (Πάν) (forty-nine lines), but the rest of the poems in the corpus are short celebrations of divine powers consisting of between three and twenty-two lines. Critical attention has understandably focused most on the longer Homeric Hymns with extended narratives. The thirty-three hymns praise most of the major deities of Greek religion; at least the shorter ones may have served as preludes to the recitation of epic verse at festivals by professional rhapsodes: often the singer concludes by saying that now he will pass to another song. A thirty-fourth, To Hosts is not a hymn, but a reminder that hospitality is a sacred duty enjoined by the gods, a pointed reminder when coming from a professional rhapsode. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Homeric Hymns' book : https://amzn.to/3E4GzPW Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Homer #Hymns #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension present ancient Greek agricultural arts and moralizing advice, the reading of Hesiod's Works And Days full audiobook with text and illustrations. Author : Hesiod Written : 700 BC Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Greek Mythology, Knowledge Reader : Arthur Krolman Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension _________________________________ Hesiod's father was a seafaring trader and, perhaps, also a farmer. He was forced by poverty to leave his native place, and returned to continental Greece. Two sons, Hesiod and Perses, were born to the settler, and these, after his death, divided the farm between them. Perses, however, who is represented as an idler and spendthrift, obtained and kept the larger share by bribing the corrupt ruling "lords". Works And Days of Hesiod is a didactic poem in dactylic hexameter. It is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Works And Days is best known for its two mythological aetiologies for the toil and pain that define the human condition, the story of Prometheus and Pandora, and the Myth of Five Ages. This audiobook feature most of Hesiod's Works And Days book translated by Hugh G. Evelyn White, excluding the commentary and remark. The other two parts might be necessary if you want to understand everything. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Hesiod's Works And Days' book : https://amzn.to/3XbN8Z2 Audible : https://amzn.to/2GTezEE Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/35yKKDB Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/2RwLIbb Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you very much. #worksanddays #hesiod #ancientgreece

Audiobooks Dimension present the most beautiful peotry of ancient Greek, reading Sappho One Hundred Lyrics (poetry) full audiobook with text and illustrations. Author : Sappho [Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ] (630 - 570 BC) Written : 610 - 570 BC Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Potsherd, Papyrus Fragments, Manuscripts Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Lyric Poetry Translator : Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929) Reader : Peter Yearsley Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension _________________________________ Sappho One Hundred Lyrics Audiobook Video Chapters; 00:00:00 - I 00:07:46 - XI 00:11:56 - XXI 00:17:40 - XXXI 00:25:12 - XLI 00:30:25 - LI 00:38:07 - LXI 00:43:44 - LXXI 00:48:34 - LXXXI 00:57:16 - XCI Follow the link below to see full video chapters ; https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/2023/01/sappho.html _________________________________ For about two thousand five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists. Every one who reads acknowledges her fame, concedes her supremacy ; but to all except poets and Hellenists her name is a vague and uncomprehended splendour, rising secure above a persistent mist of misconception. In spite of all that is in these days being written about Sappho, it is perhaps not out of place now to inquire, in a few words, into the substance of this supremacy which towers so unassailably secure from what appear to be such shadowy foundations. Sappho was at the height of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. Among the AEolic peoples of the Isles, in particular, it had been carried to a high pitch of perfection, and its forms had become the subject of assiduous study. Its technique was exact, complex, extremely elaborate, minutely regulated ; yet the essential fires of sincerity, spontaneity, imagination, and passion were flaming with undiminished heat behind the fixed forms and restricted measures. The very metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue sea, beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms to fluency. Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song—revered, studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of attendants and disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus and acclaimed by her fellowcraftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age. "The Lost 'Poems of Sappho" have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to witness their full glory. This audiobook present most of Sappho (Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ) One Hundred Lyrics (Poetry) book translated by Bliss Carman. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Sappho One Hundred Lyrics' book : https://amzn.to/3j7phuR Audible : https://amzn.to/2GTezEE Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/35yKKDB Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/2RwLIbb The channel receives a small commission for purchases made using the affiliate links above. It doesn't cost you extra, so please feel free to buy everything. It is a great way to support the content and really helps out the channel. Thank you! #sappho #poetry #audiobooksdimension

AudioBooks Dimension present The Battle of Frogs and Mice (Battle of the Frogs and Mice | Batrachomyomachia | Βατραχομυομαχία) dramatize audiobook with text, illustrations, music, sound effect Author : Homer (Ὅμηρος) Written : 800 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Comedy, Comic Epic, Epic Parody, Fable, Fiction Reader : Arthur Krolman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice | Batrakhomakhia | Βατραχομυομαχία) is our sole extant full example of epic parody. It is dated to the 6th through 4th centuries BCE or later. The poem’s contents indicate later composition or editing. Hellenistic sources attribute authorship to Homer (Ὅμηρος); later sources credit Pigres (Πίγρης) of Halicarnassus (Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός). Although there is insufficient evidence to place the Batrakhomuomachia in a specific performance context, as a later composition it probably drew on oral performances and textual editions for influence. Whether or not there was an oral tradition of epic parody separate from or prior to the Athenian context, it seems likely that there were regular conventions shaping the practice and performance of parody. ​ Close readings of the parody reveal a deep engagement with Homeric language and themes. The poem’s plot features a friendship between a frog and a mouse that, following the mouse’s death by falling from the frog’s back during a pond-crossing, results in heroic combat between their ‘tribes’, culminating in a mouse victory (aided by crabs sent by Zeus). The poem also features heroic genealogies, grandiose speeches, type-scenes, a use of paradeigma (e.g., Europa and Zeus), a divine council and divine intervention. At times, the poem may provide parody of the Iliad specifically. Recent scholarship has argued that the parody is engaged in serious—albeit indirect—literary criticism. Inconsistencies in the poem, as when combatants die only to reappear, have been seen by some as intentional imitations of a ‘nodding Homer’ rather than evidence of manuscript corruption. The poem is very funny at times and attests to deep engagement with different generic traditions, including animal fable, parodic animal epic, the language of tragedy and comedy, as well as traditional epic and myth. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice' book : https://amzn.to/3pYWY54 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Homer #Batrachomyomachia #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension present The Shield of Heracles (Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) dramatize audiobook with text, illustrations, music, sound effect Author : Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος) Written : 700 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Epic, Fiction, Greek Mythology Reader : Arthur Krolman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Shield of Heracles (The Shield of Herakles, Aspis Herakleous, Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) is a poem of 480 hexameter lines written by an unknown Greek poet in the style of Hesiod (lived 8th century BCE). It deals with the Greek hero Herakles (also known as Hercules) and his nephew Iolaus and their battle with Cycnus, son of the war-god Ares. It is unclear when the action of the poem takes place in the story of Heracles' life in myth and legend, but in the story Heracles and Iolaus are on their way to the city of Trachis (where Heracles and his second wife Deinara lived toward the end of their lives, but no mention is made of her or of any other events in the hero's life besides his birth) when they meet Cycnus and Ares. The poem was thought to be an original work by Hesiod but was already suspect as the work of another by around the 3rd century BCE. Some modern-day sources continue to attribute the work to Hesiod even though by now it has long been established as the work of another writing in Hesiod's style. The poem borrows heavily from Homer's Iliad, chapter 18, in which he describes the shield of Achilles. The author of The Shield of Heracles took some lines directly from Iliad and only modified others, but the majority of the poem is an original work. It was very popular in Greece, particularly Athens, in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, and the story inspired representations in art on vases and drinking vessels. For more description, please visit : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/2023/07/heracles-shield.html _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'The Shield of Heracles' book : https://amzn.to/3ruwCs7 Audible : https://amzn.to/3KnjdsH Audible Gift : https://amzn.to/3PWY0Jo Kindle Unlimited : https://amzn.to/3K1UjOO Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Heracles #Hercules #Hesiod

AudioBooks Dimension present Fragments of Heraclitus dramatize audiobook with text, illustrations, music, sound effect Author : Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος) Written : 515 ~ 475 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Fragments, Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Philip Wheelwright Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Quotations Reader : Alan Rickman Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ Heraclitus's Fragments Audiobook Chapters; 00:00:00 - Chapter I 00:03:55 - Chapter II 00:05:38 - Chapter III 00:08:21 - Chapter IV 00:11:49 - Chapter V 00:15:55 - Chapter VI 00:19:59 - Chapter VII 00:23:54 - Chapter VIII _________________________________ Heraclitus(Ἡράκλειτος) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. Most of the ancient stories about him are thought to be later fabrications based on interpretations of the preserved fragments. His paradoxical philosophy and appreciation for wordplay and cryptic, oracular epigrams has earned him the epithets "the dark" and "the obscure" since antiquity. He was considered arrogant and depressed, a misanthrope who was subject to melancholia. Consequently, he became known as "the weeping philosopher" in contrast to the ancient philosopher Democritus(Δημόκριτος), who was known as "the laughing philosopher". The central idea of Heraclitus' philosophy is the unity of opposites and the concept of change. He also saw harmony and justice in strife. He viewed the world as constantly in flux, always "becoming" but never "being". This audiobook feature 1/2 of Heraclitus's Fragments book translation by Philip Wheelwright. It's represent only The Text part in order to preserve the archaic impression that prevails in the Greek. Therefore, for one who would plumb the depths of wisdom in Heraclitus's Fragments, the other half is indispensable. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy Heraclitus's Fragments book : https://amzn.to/3JyEyia Audible : https://amzn.to/3VjziDV Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/40SE4Jt Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/3NwH7UK Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #Heraclitus #fragments #AudiobooksDimension

AudioBooks Dimension present The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ/論語/论语) audiobook with Text, illustrations, music, sound effect Author : Disciples of Confucius (孔夫子) Written : 475 ~ 221 BCE Place of Origin : Ancient China Original Media type : Bamboo Slips, Fragments, Patchwork, Paper Original Language : Classical Chinese Translator : Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans) Music : China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater (中国歌剧舞剧院 | @CNODDT) Genre(s) : Ancient China, Collection, Conversations, Nonfiction, Philosophy Reader : 曉臻, 云杨, 晓伊 Editor : @AudioBooksDimension _________________________________ The Analects of Confucius Audiobook Video Chapters; 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:25 - Text of The Analects 00:08:31 - Chapter 2 00:16:02 - Chapter 3 00:25:10 - Chapter 4 00:31:39 - Chapter 5 00:41:55 - Chapter 6 00:51:36 - Chapter 7 01:02:30 - Chapter 8 01:09:35 - Chapter 9 01:19:26 - Chapter 10 01:28:48 - Chapter 11 01:41:04 - Chapter 12 01:52:38 - Chapter 13 02:04:57 - Chapter 14 02:21:16 - Chapter 15 02:33:11 - Chapter 16 02:42:21 - Chapter 17 02:53:38 - Chapter 18 03:00:42 - Chapter 19 03:09:58 - Chapter 20 03:13:48 - Song of Orchid & Epilogue _________________________________ The Analects (論語; Lúnyǔ; meaning "Selected Sayings"), also known as the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Confucius, or the Lun Yu, is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475–221 BCE), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a "commentary" on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty. During the late Song dynasty (960–1279 AD) the importance of the Analects as a Chinese philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the "Four Books". The Analects has been one of the most widely-read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today. The Analects is the only place where we can actually encounter the real, living Confucius. The text, which consist of a discontinuous series of brief statements, short dialogues and anecdotes, was compiled by two successive generations of disciples (disciples and disciples of disciples), over some seventy-five years after Confucius's death—which means that the compilation was probably completed a little before, or around, 400 BC. The text is a patchwork: fragments from different hands have been stitched together, with uneven skill—there are some repetitions, interpolations, and contradictions; there are some puzzles and countless loopholes; but on the whole, there are very few stylistic anachronisms: the language and syntax of most of the fragments is coherent and pertains to the same period. Confucius lived in a period of historical transition, in an age of acute cultural crisis. In one fundamental respect, there was a certain similarity between his time and ours: he was witnessing the collapse of civilization—he saw his world sinking into violence and barbarity. Five hundred years before him, a universal feudal order had been established, unifying the entire civilized world: this was the achievement of one of China's greatest cultural heroes, the Duke of Zhou. But now the Zhou tradition was no longer operative, the Zhou world was falling apart. Confucius believed that Heaven had chosen him to become the spiritual heir to the Duke of Zhou, and that he should revive his grand design, restore the world order on a new ethical basis, and salvage the entire civilization. This audiobook feature 1/3 of The Analects of Confucius translation by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans). It's represent only The Text part in order to preserve the archaic impression that prevails in the Chinese. Therefore, for one who would plumb the depths of wisdom in The Analects, the Notes and Interpretations parts are indispensable. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy The Analects of Confucius book : https://amzn.to/3oroWG8 Audible : https://amzn.to/3VjziDV Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/40SE4Jt Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/3NwH7UK Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you. #analects #confucius #AudiobooksDimension

Audiobooks Dimension present the most beautiful peotry of ancient Greek, Sappho One Hundred Lyrics (poetry) dramatize audiobook with music, illustrations, text and sound effect Author : Sappho [Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ] (630 - 570 BC) Written : 610 - 570 BC Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Potsherd, Papyrus Fragments, Manuscripts Original Language : Ancient Greek Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Lyric Poetry Translator : Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929) Reader : Peter Yearsley Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension _________________________________ Sappho One Hundred Lyrics Audiobook Video Chapters; 00:00:00 - I 00:07:46 - XI 00:11:56 - XXI 00:17:40 - XXXI 00:25:12 - XLI 00:30:25 - LI 00:38:07 - LXI 00:43:44 - LXXI 00:48:34 - LXXXI 00:57:16 - XCI Follow the link below to see full video chapters ; https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/2023/01/sappho.html _________________________________ For about two thousand five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists. Every one who reads acknowledges her fame, concedes her supremacy ; but to all except poets and Hellenists her name is a vague and uncomprehended splendour, rising secure above a persistent mist of misconception. In spite of all that is in these days being written about Sappho, it is perhaps not out of place now to inquire, in a few words, into the substance of this supremacy which towers so unassailably secure from what appear to be such shadowy foundations. Sappho was at the height of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. Among the AEolic peoples of the Isles, in particular, it had been carried to a high pitch of perfection, and its forms had become the subject of assiduous study. Its technique was exact, complex, extremely elaborate, minutely regulated ; yet the essential fires of sincerity, spontaneity, imagination, and passion were flaming with undiminished heat behind the fixed forms and restricted measures. The very metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue sea, beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms to fluency. Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song—revered, studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of attendants and disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus and acclaimed by her fellowcraftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age. "The Lost 'Poems of Sappho" have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to witness their full glory. This audiobook present most of Sappho (Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ) One Hundred Lyrics (Poetry) book translated by Bliss Carman. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Sappho One Hundred Lyrics' book : https://amzn.to/3j7phuR Audible : https://amzn.to/2GTezEE Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/35yKKDB Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/2RwLIbb The channel receives a small commission for purchases made using the affiliate links above. It doesn't cost you extra, so please feel free to buy everything. It is a great way to support the content and really helps out the channel. Thank you! #sappho #poetry #audiobooksdimension

AudioBooks Dimension present the genealogies and legend of the Greek gods, the reading of Hesiod's Theogony full audiobook with text and illustrations. *** Names & term were pronounced in ancient Greek. *** Author : Hesiod Written : 730~700 BC Place of Origin : Ancient Greece Original Media type : Papyrus Original Language : Ancient Greek Translator : Richard S. Caldwell Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Epic, Fiction, Greek Mythology Reader : Judi Dench Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension _________________________________ The Theogony is a poetic account of how the Greek gods came into existence, and of the relationships and conflicts between them which led finally to a permanent divine monarchy under the rule of Zeus, the supreme god and 'father of gods and men.' Hesiod's Theogony is our best and earliest evidence for what the ancient Greek believed about the beginning of the world and its divine governance. It is relatively short and straightforward account of family relationships and conflicts among the gods. But, underlying the genealogical lists and remote places, the Theogony is also a complex and powerful statement of the connection between family status and the drive for power. This audiobook feature 1/3 of Hesiod's Theogony book by Richard S. Caldwell. It's represent only the translation part of the original text in order to preserve the archaic impression of the book. However, the other 2 parts (the structure & the commentary) are necessary if you want to study further. _________________________________ Where else to find my work : Website : https://audiobooksdimension.blogspot.com/ Youtube : https://youtube.com/@audiobooksdimension _________________________________ How to support my work : Buy me a coffee : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnlyAudiobooks Buy 'Hesiod's Theogony' book : https://amzn.to/3WKiBkf Audible : https://amzn.to/2GTezEE Amazon Kindle unlimited : https://amzn.to/35yKKDB Give audiobook as gift : https://amzn.to/2RwLIbb Purchasing through links above may cause Amazon to pay me some money. It won't cost you extra so feel free to buy everything. Thank you very much. #theogony #hesiod #mythology