Audiobook: World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
- Download The last token, painting, frontispiece audio
- Download Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note audio
- Download The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox audio
- Download The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides audio
- Download The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 audio
- Download Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer audio
- Download The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer audio
- Download Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note audio
- Download How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch audio
- Download Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl audio
- Download The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles audio
- Download Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 audio
- Download Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats audio
- Download Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note audio
- Download The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy audio
- Download The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan audio
- Download How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch audio
- Download Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note audio
- Download Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 audio
- Download In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein audio
- Download The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes audio
- Download The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides audio
- Download When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon audio
- Download The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato audio
- Download Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note audio
- Download Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes audio
- Download Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch audio
- Download In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough audio
- Download The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 audio
- Download Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note audio
- Download The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian audio
- Download Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck audio
- Download The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron audio
- Download Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note audio
- Download Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch audio
- Download The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch audio
- Download How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott audio
- Download The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy audio
- Download Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 audio
- Download Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay audio
- Download How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note audio
- Download When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold audio
- Download How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold audio
- Download The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold audio
- Download The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold audio
- Download Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note audio
- Download The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy audio
- Download Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 audio
- Download How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy audio
- Download Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust audio
- Download Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg audio
- Download On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus audio
- Download Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note audio
- Download Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 audio
- Download When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch audio
- Download Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch audio
- Download The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude audio
- Download At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare audio
- Download Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note audio
- Download Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger audio
- Download A Roman bore, by Horace audio
- Download Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring audio
- Download Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note audio
- Download The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould audio
- Download In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 audio
- Download The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould audio
- Download The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton audio
- Download A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens audio
- Download How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply audio
- Download Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note audio
- Download ''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 audio
- Download The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron audio
- Download The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz audio
- Download A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius audio
- Download The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself audio
- Download ''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490 audio
- Download The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers audio
- Download Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note audio
- Download Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware audio
- Download The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett audio
- Download Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note audio
- Download Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins audio
- Download Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 audio
- Download How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy audio
- Download Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn audio
- Download Justinian in council, painting p. 548 audio
- Download Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow audio
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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
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