The last token, painting, frontispiece

2:33

Read by Sonia

Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note

2:05

Read by Sonia

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

22:34

Read by Sonia

The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides

12:14

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The deification of Homer, painting p. 22

1:14

Read by Sonia

Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer

21:36

Read by Jim Locke

The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer

10:09

Read by Jim Locke

Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note

1:39

Read by Monika M. C.

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

27:14

Read by Jim Locke

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

10:54

Read by Jim Locke

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

18:50

Read by Jim Locke

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

2:55

Read by Tomas Peter

Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75

1:44

Read by Jim Locke

Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats

3:19

Read by Nemo

Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note

1:01

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

21:48

Read by Jim Locke

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

44:09

Read by Jim Locke

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

14:25

Read by K.T.B.

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

1:48

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

10:21

Read by Colleen McMahon

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

1:58

Read by K.T.B.

In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein

26:39

Read by Colleen McMahon

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

11:08

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

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

19:32

Read by Colleen McMahon

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

16:50

Read by Colleen McMahon

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

12:41

Read by Availle

Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note

1:51

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

8:57

Read by Richard Potenza

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

8:52

Read by April6090

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

22:39

Read by Jim Locke

The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204

2:39

Read by Hypatia

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

1:31

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

34:03

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck

7:11

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron

5:37

Read by Nemo

Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note

2:21

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

15:32

Read by April6090

The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pear…

15:45

Read by Jim Locke

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

12:23

Read by April6090

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

17:15

Read by Jim Locke

Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268

1:26

Read by Hypatia

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

24:29

Read by Nemo

How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan

18:38

Read by realisticspeakers

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

1:24

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

9:26

Read by fishfish

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

10:30

Read by Angelique G. Campbell

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

10:59

Read by Jim Locke

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

6:47

Read by Devorah Allen

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

2:29

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

13:19

Read by Nigel Fisher

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

28:37

Read by Jim Locke

Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336

2:45

Read by Availle

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

5:43

Read by Ryan Copper

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

15:52

Read by fishfish

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

9:28

Read by Availle

On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus

1:58

Read by Alan Mapstone

Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note

2:23

Read by Hypatia

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

3:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

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

4:32

Read by Alan Mapstone

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

6:37

Read by Tomas Peter

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

8:53

Read by April6090

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

19:07

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

2:16

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

15:19

Read by Hypatia

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

6:04

Read by April6090

A Roman bore, by Horace

6:23

Read by April6090

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

16:15

Read by Jim Locke

Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note

1:57

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

21:19

Read by Jim Locke

In the time of Nero, painting p. 430

3:33

Read by SaraHale

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

17:14

Read by April6090

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

16:56

Read by Devorah Allen

A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens

6:33

Read by Availle

How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emp…

6:29

Read by Devorah Allen

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

1:51

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

3:23

Read by Alan Mapstone

The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron

1:46

Read by Tomas Peter

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

19:22

Read by thestorygirl

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

22:59

Read by Jim Locke

The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), describ…

12:18

Read by April6090

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

2:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

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

32:33

Read by Jim Locke

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

2:17

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

8:48

Read by Laura Larson

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

14:44

Read by thestorygirl

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

5:12

Read by Monika M. C.

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

10:39

Read by April6090

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

1:30

Read by J. M. Smallheer

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

9:56

Read by eWinters

Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540

2:40

Read by Tomas Peter

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

11:09

Read by April6090

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

27:31

Read by eWinters

Justinian in council, painting p. 548

2:33

Read by Sonia

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

3:59

Read by Sonia

Newly dicovered

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