From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Fri Jan 10 1997 - 17:34:59 EST
(Aplogies for the somewhat off-the-thread nature of the following.
Still, I thought some might find it interesting...)
A while back someone (EdwardH?) gave a pointer to AudioForum's complete
recordings of The Iliad and of The Odyssey in the original.
For those similarly interested, over the holidays Santa brought me a audio
tape version of Robert Fagle's version of The Odyssey. The version is
complete (12 tapes, ~13h10) and is read by the English actor Ian McKellen.
(Priced somehere in the mid-40s.)
BTW, I also own a companion set of Fagle's Iliad, read by Derek Jacobi.
That version is somewhat abbridged, comprising about 60-70% of the text.
Nichael
nichael@sover.net
http://www.sover.net/~nichael/
(All told, I would have prefered the translation by Lattimore.
Unfortunately, I've only ever found a single tape, taken from the middle
of Lattimore's Iliad, read by Anthony Quayle. Still, this is a quibble.
This is a very nice set. Certainly my 2-hour commute down to Cambridge
has been much more pleasant the last couple of weeks.)
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