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)

Kapitel

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

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