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)

Chapitres

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

Critiques

Newly dicovered


(5 stars)

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