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The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

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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

The last token, painting, frontispiece

2:33

Read by Sonia

Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note

2:05

Read by Sonia

The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox

22:34

Read by Sonia

The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides

12:14

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The deification of Homer, painting p. 22

1:14

Read by Sonia

Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer

21:36

Read by Jim Locke

The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer

10:09

Read by Jim Locke

Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note

1:39

Read by Monika M. C.

How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch

27:14

Read by Jim Locke

Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan

10:54

Read by Jim Locke

At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl

18:50

Read by Jim Locke

The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles

2:55

Read by Tomas Peter

Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75

1:44

Read by Jim Locke

Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats

3:19

Read by Nemo

Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note

1:01

Read by J. M. Smallheer

The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy

21:48

Read by Jim Locke

The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan

44:09

Read by Jim Locke

How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch

14:25

Read by K.T.B.

Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note

1:48

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan

10:21

Read by Colleen McMahon

A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128

1:58

Read by K.T.B.

In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein

26:39

Read by Colleen McMahon

The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes

11:08

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides

19:32

Read by Colleen McMahon

When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon

16:50

Read by Colleen McMahon

The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato

12:41

Read by Availle

Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note

1:51

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes

8:57

Read by Richard Potenza

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch

8:52

Read by April6090

In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough

22:39

Read by Jim Locke

The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204

2:39

Read by Hypatia

Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical n…

1:31

Read by J. M. Smallheer

The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian

34:03

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck

7:11

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron

5:37

Read by Nemo

Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note

2:21

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

How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott

12:23

Read by April6090

The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy

17:15

Read by Jim Locke

Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268

1:26

Read by Hypatia

Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

24:29

Read by Nemo

How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan

18:38

Read by realisticspeakers

Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note

1:24

Read by J. M. Smallheer

When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold

9:26

Read by Ting Cleary

How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold

10:30

Read by Angelique G. Campbell

The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold

10:59

Read by Jim Locke

The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold

6:47

Read by Devorah Allen

Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note

2:29

Read by J. M. Smallheer

The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan

13:19

Read by Nigel Fisher

How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy

28:37

Read by Jim Locke

Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336

2:45

Read by Availle

How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy

5:43

Read by Ryan Copper

Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust

15:52

Read by Ting Cleary

Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg

9:28

Read by Availle

On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus

1:58

Read by Alan Mapstone

Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note

2:23

Read by Hypatia

Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368

3:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch

4:32

Read by Alan Mapstone

Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch

6:37

Read by Tomas Peter

The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude

8:53

Read by April6090

At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare

19:07

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

2:16

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tapp…

15:19

Read by Hypatia

The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger

6:04

Read by April6090

A Roman bore, by Horace

6:23

Read by April6090

Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring

16:15

Read by Jim Locke

Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note

1:57

Read by J. M. Smallheer

The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould

21:19

Read by Jim Locke

In the time of Nero, painting p. 430

3:33

Read by SaraHale

The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould

17:14

Read by April6090

The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

16:56

Read by Devorah Allen

A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens

6:33

Read by Availle

How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emp…

6:29

Read by Devorah Allen

Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note

1:51

Read by J. M. Smallheer

''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460

3:23

Read by Alan Mapstone

The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron

1:46

Read by Tomas Peter

The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

19:22

Read by thestorygirl

A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius

22:59

Read by Jim Locke

The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), describ…

12:18

Read by April6090

''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490

2:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers

32:33

Read by Jim Locke

Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note

2:17

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan

8:48

Read by Laura Larson

Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware

14:44

Read by thestorygirl

The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett

5:12

Read by Monika M. C.

Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tapp…

10:39

Read by April6090

Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note

1:30

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins

9:56

Read by eWinters

Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540

2:40

Read by Tomas Peter

How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

11:09

Read by April6090

Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn

27:31

Read by eWinters

Justinian in council, painting p. 548

2:33

Read by Sonia

Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:59

Read by Sonia

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