The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Poetry, War & Military Fiction

Narrators: Sonia, Group, Jim Locke, Monika M. C., Tomas Peter, Nemo, J. M. Smallheer, K.T.B., Colleen McMahon, Availle, Richard Potenza, April6090, Hypatia, Alan Mapstone, Realisticspeakers, Ting Cleary, Angelique G. Campbell, Devorah Allen, Nigel Fisher, Ryan Copper, SaraHale, Thestorygirl, Laura Larson, EWinters

Number of Chapters: 94

Length: 16 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

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

The last token, painting, frontispiece (Sonia)

Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note (Sonia)

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

The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides (Group)

The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 (Sonia)

Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer (Jim Locke)

The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer (Jim Locke)

Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note (Monika M. C.)

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

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

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

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

Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 (Jim Locke)

Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats (Nemo)

Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

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

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

Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 (K.T.B.)

In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein (Colleen McMahon)

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

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

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

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

Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch (April6090)

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

The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 (Hypatia)

Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck (Alan Mapstone)

The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron (Nemo)

Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch (April6090)

The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch (Jim Locke)

How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott (April6090)

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

Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 (Hypatia)

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

How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan (realisticspeakers)

Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

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

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

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

Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan (Nigel Fisher)

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

Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 (Availle)

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

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

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

On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus (Alan Mapstone)

Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note (Hypatia)

Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 (Alan Mapstone)

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

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

The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude (April6090)

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

Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger (April6090)

A Roman bore, by Horace (April6090)

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

Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 (SaraHale)

The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould (April6090)

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

A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens (Availle)

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

Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron (Tomas Peter)

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

A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius (Jim Locke)

The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself (April6090)

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

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

Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

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

The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett (Monika M. C.)

Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan (April6090)

Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)

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

Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 (Tomas Peter)

How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (April6090)

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

Justinian in council, painting p. 548 (Sonia)

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

The audiobook The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome falls under the genres of Historical Fiction, Poetry, War & Military Fiction. It is written by Eva March Tappan.

ListenFreeAudio.Com

Your Free Audiobook Library

The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome