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World's Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Public domain audiobook

World's Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

by Eva March Tappan

English· 16:44:01· 94 chapters
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

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The last token, painting, frontispiece

    02:33
  2. Chapter 2

    Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note

    02:05
  3. Chapter 3

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

    22:34
  4. Chapter 4

    The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides

    12:14
  5. Chapter 5

    The deification of Homer, painting p. 22

    01:14
  6. Chapter 6

    Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer

    21:36
  7. Chapter 7

    The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer

    10:09
  8. Chapter 8

    Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note

    01:39
  9. Chapter 9

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

    27:14
  10. Chapter 10

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

    10:54
  11. Chapter 11

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

    18:50
  12. Chapter 12

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

    02:55
  13. Chapter 13

    Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75

    01:44
  14. Chapter 14

    Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats

    03:19
  15. Chapter 15

    Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note

    01:01
  16. Chapter 16

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

    21:48
  17. Chapter 17

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

    44:09
  18. Chapter 18

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

    14:25
  19. Chapter 19

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

    01:48
  20. Chapter 20

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

    10:21
  21. Chapter 21

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

    01:58
  22. Chapter 22

    In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein

    26:39
  23. Chapter 23

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

    11:08
  24. Chapter 24

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

    19:32
  25. Chapter 25

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

    16:50
  26. Chapter 26

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

    12:41
  27. Chapter 27

    Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note

    01:51
  28. Chapter 28

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

    08:57
  29. Chapter 29

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

    08:52
  30. Chapter 30

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

    22:39
  31. Chapter 31

    The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204

    02:39
  32. Chapter 32

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

    01:31
  33. Chapter 33

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

    34:03
  34. Chapter 34

    Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck

    07:11
  35. Chapter 35

    The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron

    05:37
  36. Chapter 36

    Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note

    02:21
  37. Chapter 37

    Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

    15:32
  38. Chapter 38

    The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

    15:45
  39. Chapter 39

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

    12:23
  40. Chapter 40

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

    17:15
  41. Chapter 41

    Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268

    01:26
  42. Chapter 42

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

    24:29
  43. Chapter 43

    How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan

    18:38
  44. Chapter 44

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

    01:24
  45. Chapter 45

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

    09:26
  46. Chapter 46

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

    10:30
  47. Chapter 47

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

    10:59
  48. Chapter 48

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

    06:47
  49. Chapter 49

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

    02:29
  50. Chapter 50

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

    13:19
  51. Chapter 51

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

    28:37
  52. Chapter 52

    Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336

    02:45
  53. Chapter 53

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

    05:43
  54. Chapter 54

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

    15:52
  55. Chapter 55

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

    09:28
  56. Chapter 56

    On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus

    01:58
  57. Chapter 57

    Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note

    02:23
  58. Chapter 58

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

    03:02
  59. Chapter 59

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

    04:32
  60. Chapter 60

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

    06:37
  61. Chapter 61

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

    08:53
  62. Chapter 62

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

    19:07
  63. Chapter 63

    Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

    02:16
  64. Chapter 64

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

    15:19
  65. Chapter 65

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

    06:04
  66. Chapter 66

    A Roman bore, by Horace

    06:23
  67. Chapter 67

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

    16:15
  68. Chapter 68

    Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note

    01:57
  69. Chapter 69

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

    21:19
  70. Chapter 70

    In the time of Nero, painting p. 430

    03:33
  71. Chapter 71

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

    17:14
  72. Chapter 72

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

    16:56
  73. Chapter 73

    A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens

    06:33
  74. Chapter 74

    How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply

    06:29
  75. Chapter 75

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

    01:51
  76. Chapter 76

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

    03:23
  77. Chapter 77

    The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron

    01:46
  78. Chapter 78

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

    19:22
  79. Chapter 79

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

    22:59
  80. Chapter 80

    The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself

    12:18
  81. Chapter 81

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

    02:13
  82. Chapter 82

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

    32:33
  83. Chapter 83

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

    02:17
  84. Chapter 84

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

    08:48
  85. Chapter 85

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

    14:44
  86. Chapter 86

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

    05:12
  87. Chapter 87

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

    10:39
  88. Chapter 88

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

    01:30
  89. Chapter 89

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

    09:56
  90. Chapter 90

    Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540

    02:40
  91. Chapter 91

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

    11:09
  92. Chapter 92

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

    27:31
  93. Chapter 93

    Justinian in council, painting p. 548

    02:33
  94. Chapter 94

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

    03:59