Audiobook: Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods
- Download Preface audio
- Download Dialogue I: Prometheus obtains his release from Zeus by a prophecy audio
- Download Dialogue II: Zeus threatens to put Eros in fetters audio
- Download Dialogue III: Zeus orders Hermes to slay Argus, and to conduct Io to Egypt audio
- Download Dialogue IV: Zeus instructs Ganymedes as to the nature of his duties in heaven audio
- Download Dialogue V: Hera upbraids Zeus with his love for Ganymedes audio
- Download Dialogue VI: Ixion makes love to Hera audio
- Download Dialogue VII: Hephæstus recounts to Apollo the actions of the infant prodigy, Hermes audio
- Download Dialogue VIII: Hephæstus assists at the parturition of Zeus and the birth of Athena audio
- Download Dialogue IX: Hermes refuses Poseidon admission to Zeus, and assigns as the reason the lying-in of the king of gods and men with Bacchus audio
- Download Dialogue X: Hermes conveys to Helios the order of Zeus audio
- Download Dialogue XI: Aphrodite charges Selene with her love for Endymion, and, at the same time, laments the tyranny of her son, Eros, over herself audio
- Download Dialogue XII: Aphrodite upbraids Eros for his mischievous conduct in the past, and cautions him for the future audio
- Download Dialogue XIII: Asklepius and Herakles quarrel on a question of precedence in heaven audio
- Download Dialogue XIV: Apollo recounts to hermes the manner of the death of Hyakinthus, and his grief for the same audio
- Download Dialogue XV: Hermes and Apollo envy the deformed Hephæstus the possession of his beautiful wives audio
- Download Dialogue XVI: Hera and Leto dispute about the merits of their respective children audio
- Download Dialogue XVII: Hermes narrates to Apollo the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite, and the revenge of Hephæstus audio
- Download Dialogue XVIII: Hera denounces, and Zeus defends, the character of Bacchus audio
- Download Dialogue XIX: Eros explains to his mother why he does not assail Athena, the Musæ, and Artemis audio
- Download Dialogue XX: The Judgment of Paris audio
- Download Dialogue XXI: Ares ridicules the threat of Zeus, and the chain let down from heaven audio
- Download Dialogue XXII: Pan urges his claims to be the son of Hermes, who is unwilling to admit his paternity audio
- Download Dialogue XXIII: Apollo remarks to Bacchus on the heterogeneousness of Aphrodite's children; while Bacchus exposes the character of Priapus audio
- Download Dialogue XXIV: Hermes complains to his mother of the multiplicity of his employments audio
- Download Dialogue XXV: Helios, accused by Zeus of rash conduct in giving up his chariot to his son, obtains a conditional pardon audio
- Download Dialogue XXVI: Apollo asks Hermes to point out to him, of the twin dioscuri which is Kastor and which Polydeukes; and takes the opportunity of criticising their divine pretensions audio
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The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original humor and wit.
The cast list for dialogues with 3 or more readers is given below:
Dialogue 8:
Zeus: Owen Cook
Hephæstus: KevinS
Stage directions: Foon
Dialogue 9:
Poseidon: ToddHW
Hermes: Owen Cook
Stage directions: Foon
Dialogue 13:
Zeus: ToddHW
Asklepius: Foon
Herakles: KevinS
Dialogue 20:
Zeus: alanmapstone
Hermes: Owen Cook
Hera: Foon
Athena: Sonia
Aphrodite: Sandra Schmit
Paris: Aaron White
Stage directions: ToddHW
Editor: Campbell Schelp
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