Two More Free Audiobooks Because Why Not?

Both of these downloads require you to create accounts with the websites offering the free audiobooks, but neither require you to enter financial information for the freebie.

Greek Gods
by William Smith*
LearnOutLoud offers a free download of Greek Gods, which includes 14 brief audio sketches of each of the major Greek Deities; providing the listener with information on lineage, characteristics, historical significance and artistic renditions. Edited by William Smith along with a team of thirty-five classics scholars, these entries from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology serve as one of the most comprehensive guides to classical mythology drawing from a wide array of sources in Greek and Roman literature. If you struggled with Hamilton's Mythology in class (or didn't, because you never bothered to read it), I recommend giving this a listen.

The gods covered in this presentation are the following:

• Zeus
• Hera
• Poseidon
• Demeter
• Apollo
• Athena
• Ares
• Aphrodite
• Hephaestus
• Artemis
• Hermes
• Hestia
• Hades
• Dionysus

Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
Through June 19, Downpour.com offers downloads of Zane Grey's classic Western Riders of the Purple Sage

In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who’s come to avenge his sister’s death. It doesn’t take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who’s trying to take the woman’s land by forcing her to marry him, branding her foreman as a dangerous “outsider.” Lassiter vows to help them, but when the ranch is attacked by horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a mysterious masked rider, he realizes that they’re up against something bigger—and more brutal—than the land itself.

If you find Westerns too old-timey for your tastes, I encourage you to give this a listen. You can also read along with a download of the text from Gutenberg.org, though the audiofile is a restored (complete & unedited) version of Grey's manuscript: There will be differences, and some sections were originally edited to avoid offending sensitive readers, some parts on the audiobook may be controversial. Still try it out.


*No, not Will Smith, but how cool would that be?