The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome


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(4.6 stars; 5 reviews)

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)

Capítulos

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

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Not very prominent in the catalog. Ver nice voices and reading.