Ancient & Medieval Classics Audio & Video

Listen to Homer's epic poem The Odyssey which follows the Greek hero Odysseus on his journey from Troy to his home of Ithaca after the Trojan War.

Download Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. This classic work of Stoic philosophy by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius has been a source of guidance and self-improvement for thousands of years.

75 Classical Myths Condensed from their Primary Sources is designed to familiarize students with these stories in the most economical and accessible way possible....

Listen to Homer's ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad, translated by Samuel Butler. Learn about the wrath of Achilles, the Greek hero of the Trojan War, along with a whole cast of Greeks, Trojans, and gods that battle throughout the final year of the siege of Troy.

If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.

This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature...

Listen to this Old English epic poem by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet dated somewhere between the 8th and the early 11th century. Hear the epic battle between the hero Beowulf and the monster Grendel, and then Grendel's mother!

In this lecture professor Peter Meineck introduces Ancient Greek drama and explains why he feels it is still so popular and powerful today.

With this series we will investigate the gods, heroes, and myths that formed bedrock of belief in the ancient Greek and Roman world.

Download this free classic Christian audio book. The Confessions of St. Augustine was written by St. Augustine of Hippo between AD 397 and AD 398.