Audiobook: World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
1 - The last token, painting, frontispiece
1. The last token, painting, frontispiece 2. Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note 3. The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox 4. The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides 5. The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 6. Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer 7. The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer 8. Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note 9. How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch 10. Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan 11. At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl 12. The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles 13. Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 14. Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats 15. Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note 16. The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy 17. The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan 18. How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch 19. Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note 20. Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan 21. A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 22. In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein 23. The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes 24. The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides 25. When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon 26. The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato 27. Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note 28. Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes 29. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch 30. In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough 31. The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 32. Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note 33. The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian 34. Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck 35. The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron 36. Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note 37. Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch 38. The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch 39. How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott 40. The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy 41. Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 42. Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay 43. How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan 44. Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note 45. When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold 46. How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold 47. The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold 48. The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold 49. Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note 50. The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan 51. How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy 52. Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 53. How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy 54. Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust 55. Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg 56. On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus 57. Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note 58. Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 59. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch 60. Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch 61. The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude 62. At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare 63. Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note 64. Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan 65. The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger 66. A Roman bore, by Horace 67. Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring 68. Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note 69. The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould 70. In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 71. The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould 72. The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton 73. A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens 74. How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply 75. Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note 76. ''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 77. The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron 78. The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz 79. A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius 80. The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself 81. ''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490 82. The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers 83. Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note 84. Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan 85. Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware 86. The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett 87. Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan 88. Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note 89. Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins 90. Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 91. How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy 92. Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn 93. Justinian in council, painting p. 548 94. Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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