The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part IV include Greek mythology, the classical Greek period and the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. - Summary by Sonia
Cast list for The sacrifice of Iphigenia:
Iphigenia: Devorah Allen / Chorus: alanmapstone / Messenger: Foon / Clytemnestra: Monika M.C. / Agamemnon: Tomas Peter / Narrator: Sonia
Cast list for The bout between the poets:
Dionysus: alanmapstone / Aeschylus: TJ Burns / Chorus: Monika M.C. / Euripides: Tomas Peter / Voice: Foon / Pluto: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia
Cast list for The sale of the philosophers:
Jupiter: alanmapstone / Mercury: Tomas Peter / First Customer: TJ Burns / Pythagoras: Foon / Second Customer: Sandra Schmit / Diogenes: Son of the Exiles / Third Customer: Angelique G. Campbell / Fourth Customer: Monika M.C. / Democritus: Jim Locke / Heraclitus: Devorah Allen / Socrates: Roger Melin / Fifth Customer: April6090 / Sixth Customer: Craig Franklin / Seventh Customer: ToddHW / Chrysippus: Larry Wilson / Eighth Customer: SaraHale / Ninth Customer: Eva Davis / Pyrrho: Nemo/ Narrator: Sonia
Cast list for At the funeral of Caesar:
First Citizen: alanmapstone / Second Citizen: Monika M.C. / Third Citizen: Foon / Fourth Citizen: TJ Burns / Brutus: Nemo / Antony: Tomas Peter / Narrator: Sonia (16 hr 44 min)
Chapters
How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch
27:14
Read by Jim Locke
Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical n…
1:31
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher …
15:32
Read by April6090
The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pear…
15:45
Read by Jim Locke
The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy
17:15
Read by Jim Locke
Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tapp…
15:19
Read by Hypatia
How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emp…
6:29
Read by Devorah Allen
The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), describ…
12:18
Read by April6090
Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan
8:48
Read by Laura Larson
Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tapp…
10:39
Read by April6090
How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
11:09
Read by April6090
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Newly dicovered
Not very prominent in the catalog. Ver nice voices and reading.