The Brothers by Terence ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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08/21/23

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109m

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The Brothers by Terence audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In The Brothers (Adelphoe), Terence sets a sharply observed domestic comedy in Athens where two very different men try to raise the next generation. Demea is severe, hardworking, and convinced that discipline is the only path to virtue. His brother Micio is relaxed, affluent, and proud of the trust-based freedom he gives his adopted son, Aeschinus. When a scandal erupts in the city and Aeschinus is blamed for behavior that looks reckless and cruel, the brothers' philosophies collide in public and in private. As rumors spread and tempers flare, Demea becomes certain that leniency has bred corruption, while Micio insists that harshness only teaches young men to lie. Meanwhile, the quieter Ctesipho, Demea's natural son raised under strict rules, is pulled into the same tangle of desire, loyalty, and fear of exposure. Through quick dialogue, clever servants, and anxious lovers, Terence turns family conflict into a debate about love, authority, and what it means to truly know your children.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:33) Chapter 2

(00:33:00) Chapter 3

(00:55:33) Chapter 4

(01:21:47) Chapter 5

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The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters by Susan Petigru King-Bowen ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

August 21, 2023

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The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters by Susan Petigru King-Bowen audiobook.

Genre: romance

Portugal, 1812: while the Peninsular War grinds on, a British brigade settles into winter quarters at Elvas, where officers and their families try to turn boredom, uncertainty, and old-world etiquette into something like a season. Into this charged half-peacetime steps Lady Mabel Stewart, newly arrived from Scotland at her father Lord Strathern's summons. Young, observant, and suddenly surrounded by uniforms, rank, and rumor, Mabel must learn the unwritten rules of camp society - and decide which ones are worth obeying. The arrival of the captivating Spaniard Colonel l'Isle brings glamour and danger in equal measure, stirring talk of allegiance, reputation, and forbidden attachment. But romance here is never private: every glance is witnessed, every kindness interpreted, and jealousies flare as quickly as flirtations. As theatricals, dinners, and petty rivalries play out against a landscape marked by marching armies, Mabel finds herself caught between duty and desire, family expectations and personal judgment. Part courtship tale, part social portrait, this episode asks what love can mean when war is only a few miles away.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:48) Chapter 02

(00:43:16) Chapter 03

(01:09:28) Chapter 04

(01:33:12) Chapter 05

(01:54:38) Chapter 06

(02:19:17) Chapter 07

(02:56:13) Chapter 08

(03:07:59) Chapter 09

(03:30:23) Chapter 10

(04:01:37) Chapter 11

(04:45:20) Chapter 12

(05:02:03) Chapter 13

(05:36:48) Chapter 14

(06:05:51) Chapter 15

(06:50:39) Chapter 16

(07:07:52) Chapter 17

(07:41:24) Chapter 18

(08:28:31) Chapter 19

(08:49:22) Chapter 20

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The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

August 21, 2023

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96m

The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Written in the lively streets and marketplaces of classical Athens, The Characters offers a gallery of sharply observed human types that still feel familiar today. Attributed to Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, this compact classic presents a sequence of brief sketches, each one isolating a single vice, folly, or social habit and then showing how it plays out in daily life. You will meet the Flatterer who lives by borrowed praise, the Gossip who cannot keep a confidence, the Superstitious Man who reads omens into every coincidence, the Boor who misses every cue, and many more. Rather than telling a continuous story, the book builds its power through accumulation: scene by scene, it invites listeners to recognize patterns of behavior in neighbors, leaders, friends, and themselves. At once ethical inquiry and social satire, these portraits ask what makes a person trustworthy, civic minded, and self controlled, and what happens when small failings harden into a way of life. The result is a witty, unsettling mirror held up to human nature across time.

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(00:34:18) Chapter 01

(00:53:06) Chapter 02

(01:11:42) Chapter 03

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