The Modern Scholar Audiobook by Timothy Shutt

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/49/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Modern Scholar Subtitle: Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature Author: Timothy Shutt Narrator: Timothy Shutt Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 10-27-08 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman Publisher's Summary: From the very outset in the West - from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of addressing the human condition in literary terms. The major epics are the big boys, the works that, from the very outset, everyone had heard of and everyone knew, at least by reputation. They are the works that had the most profound and most enduring cultural influence. And they are very much with us still, some more than others, but all - or all the most successful ones - are more or less firmly enshrined in cultural memory. They are still read. They are still taught. They still gain imitators and admirers. The stories they tell still shape our imagination and aspirations. ©2004 Timothy Shutt; (P)2004 Recorded Books