The last token, painting, frontispiece
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2:33 |
Read by Sonia |
Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note
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2:05 |
Read by Sonia |
The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox
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22:34 |
Read by Sonia |
The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides
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12:14 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
The deification of Homer, painting p. 22
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1:14 |
Read by Sonia |
Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer
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21:36 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer
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10:09 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note
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1:39 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch
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27:14 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan
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10:54 |
Read by Jim Locke |
At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl
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18:50 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles
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2:55 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75
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1:44 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats
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3:19 |
Read by Nemo |
Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note
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1:01 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy
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21:48 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan
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44:09 |
Read by Jim Locke |
How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch
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14:25 |
Read by K.T.B. |
Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note
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1:48 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan
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10:21 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128
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1:58 |
Read by K.T.B. |
In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein
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26:39 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes
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11:08 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides
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19:32 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon
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16:50 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato
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12:41 |
Read by Availle |
Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note
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1:51 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes
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8:57 |
Read by Richard Potenza |
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch
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8:52 |
Read by April6090 |
In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough
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22:39 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204
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2:39 |
Read by Hypatia |
Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical n…
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1:31 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian
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34:03 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck
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7:11 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron
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5:37 |
Read by Nemo |
Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note
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2:21 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher …
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15:32 |
Read by April6090 |
The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pear…
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15:45 |
Read by Jim Locke |
How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott
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12:23 |
Read by April6090 |
The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy
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17:15 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268
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1:26 |
Read by Hypatia |
Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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24:29 |
Read by Nemo |
How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan
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18:38 |
Read by realisticspeakers |
Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note
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1:24 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold
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9:26 |
Read by Ting Cleary |
How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold
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10:30 |
Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold
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10:59 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold
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6:47 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note
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2:29 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan
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13:19 |
Read by Nigel Fisher |
How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy
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28:37 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336
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2:45 |
Read by Availle |
How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy
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5:43 |
Read by Ryan Copper |
Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust
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15:52 |
Read by Ting Cleary |
Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg
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9:28 |
Read by Availle |
On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus
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1:58 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note
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2:23 |
Read by Hypatia |
Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368
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3:02 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch
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4:32 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch
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6:37 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude
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8:53 |
Read by April6090 |
At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare
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19:07 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note
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2:16 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tapp…
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15:19 |
Read by Hypatia |
The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger
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6:04 |
Read by April6090 |
A Roman bore, by Horace
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6:23 |
Read by April6090 |
Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring
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16:15 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note
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1:57 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould
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21:19 |
Read by Jim Locke |
In the time of Nero, painting p. 430
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3:33 |
Read by SaraHale |
The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould
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17:14 |
Read by April6090 |
The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
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16:56 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens
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6:33 |
Read by Availle |
How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emp…
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6:29 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note
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1:51 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460
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3:23 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron
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1:46 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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19:22 |
Read by thestorygirl |
A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius
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22:59 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), describ…
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12:18 |
Read by April6090 |
''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490
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2:13 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers
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32:33 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note
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2:17 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan
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8:48 |
Read by Laura Larson |
Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware
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14:44 |
Read by thestorygirl |
The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett
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5:12 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tapp…
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10:39 |
Read by April6090 |
Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note
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1:30 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins
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9:56 |
Read by eWinters |
Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540
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2:40 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
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11:09 |
Read by April6090 |
Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn
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27:31 |
Read by eWinters |
Justinian in council, painting p. 548
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2:33 |
Read by Sonia |
Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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3:59 |
Read by Sonia |