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    Irish Witchcraft and Demonology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 314min
    This is a survey of the witch persecution in Ireland, as well as a wide array of other paranormal events such as poltergeists, ghosts, apparitions, and even an early UFO account. Very listenable, yet well documented, this book has extensive and fascinating quotes from historical source documents."Seymour proposes that the witch-craze was more muted in Ireland than elsewhere in Europe. Relatively speaking, there appear to have been fewer cases in Ireland. This doesn't mean that the consequences were any less harsh for the accused. In these texts, we can see how people exhibiting what we would today consider schizophrenic or senile behavior were vulnerable to being accused of witchcraft." (J.B. Hare, British classicist and philosopher)  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katrina Joyner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206039/bk_acx0_206039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wolves and Honey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min
    Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world. Prompted by the emotional loss of two friends, one a trapper and one a beekeeper, Susan Brind Morrow explores the implications of their very different relationships to the natural world. Ultimately, these two men are a touchstone for a memoir of the land itself, the rich soil of the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York. Morrow's richly evocative writing traces the connections among various realms of culture and nature, time and language, and jolts us into thinking anew about our profound relationship to the natural world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000951/bk_blak_000951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Iliad, Hörbuch, Digital, 524min
    Dating to the ninth century BC, 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. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance”. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000014/bk_peng_000014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eclipse: A Song Called Youth, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 880min
    2039: The Russians didn't use the big nukes. The ongoing Third World War has left parts of Europe in ruins. Into the chaos steps the Second Alliance, a multinational eager to impose its own kind of New World Order. In the United States - in FirStep, the vast space colony and on the artificial island Freezone - the SA shoulders its way to power, spinning a dark web of media manipulation, propaganda, and infiltration. Only the New Resistance recognizes the SA for what it really is: a racist theocracy hiding a cult of eugenics. Enter Rick Rickenharp, a former rock'n'roll cult hero: a rock classicist out of place in Europe’s underground club scene, populated by wiredancers and minimonos - but destined to play a Song Called Youth that will shake the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Sorensen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020161/bk_adbl_020161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Rescuer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min
    In 1941, a young Harvard-educated classicist named Varian Fry arrived in occupied France on a daring mission to rescue more than 2,000 of Europe's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals from the Nazis. Hounded by the Gestapo, he smuggled Marchel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt and dozens of other 20th century cultural luminaries out of France and brought them to America. So why did even the people Fry saved want to forget him? In this fascinating psychological profile, acclaimed novelist Dara Horn, chosen by Granta magazine as one of the 25 best young novelists in America, follows the peculiar life and legacy of an American Oskar Schindler. In the process, she reveals the secrets of a man who risked his life when others were silent - and the unforeseen consequences, personal and cultural, of his bravery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Piron-Gelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019669/bk_adbl_019669_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Oedipus Rex - King of Thebes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
    Oedipus Rex, also known as Oedipus the King or Oedipus the Tyrant, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as Oedipus, King of Thebes). It was the second in order of Sophocles's composition of his three plays dealing with Oedipus. Thematically, however, it was the first in the trilogy's historical chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Oedipus the King tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall (as opposed to making fate the sole cause). Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Montanez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/arpb/000009/bk_arpb_000009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Women & Power (eBook, ePUB)
    An updated edition of the Sunday Times BestsellerBritain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
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    The Ancient Guide to Modern Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Please note this product has been re-recorded in April 2015 It's time for us to reexamine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta, and Alexandria. This is a book with a serious point to make, but the author isn't simply a classicist but a comedian and broadcaster who has made television and radio documentaries about humour, education, and Dorothy Parker. This is a book for us all. Whether political, cultural or social, there are endless parallels between the ancient and modern worlds. Whether it's the murder of Caesar or the political assassination of Thatcher; the narrative arc of the hit TV series The Wire or that of Oedipus; the popular enthusiasm for the emperor Titus or President Obama - over and over again we can be seen to be living very much like people did 2,000 or more years ago. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Mersh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006182/bk_bbcw_006182_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Women & Power: A Manifesto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
    An updated edition of the Sunday Times best seller.Britain's best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. In Women & Power she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women, using examples ranging from the classical world to the modern day. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.A year on since the advent of #MeToo, in a new afterword, Beard reflects on the successes and the future of that movement, probing the narratives of rape and consent. She asks about the stories men tell themselves to justify their treatment of women. Which stories endure, and who controls them? With wry wit Beard argues it's time for change. From the author of international best seller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Beard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/002230/bk_twuk_002230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 171min
    From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made - whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers - to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western- and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Beard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012298/bk_reco_012298_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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