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World's Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

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

Year of Publication: 1914Genres: War & Military Fiction , History , Historical Fiction , Philosophy , Poetry

Running Time: 16 hours 44 minutes 01 second

#	Chapter Name
1	The last token, painting, frontispiece Sonia	2:33
2	Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note Sonia	2:05
3	The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox Sonia	22:34
4	The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides Alan Mapstone	12:14
5	The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 Sonia	1:14
6	Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer Jim Locke	21:36
7	The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer Jim Locke	10:09
8	Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note Monika M. C.	1:39
9	How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch Jim Locke	27:14
10	Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan Jim Locke	10:54
11	At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl Jim Locke	18:50
12	The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles Tomas Peter	2:55
13	Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 Jim Locke	1:44
14	Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats Nemo	3:19
15	Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:01
16	The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy Jim Locke	21:48
17	The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan Jim Locke	44:09
18	How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch K.T.B.	14:25
19	Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:48
20	Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan Colleen McMahon	10:21
21	A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 K.T.B.	1:58
22	In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein Colleen McMahon	26:39
23	The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes Alan Mapstone	11:08
24	The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides Colleen McMahon	19:32
25	When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon Colleen McMahon	16:50
26	The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato Availle	12:41
27	Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:51
28	Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes Richard Potenza	8:57
29	Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch April6090	8:52
30	In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough Jim Locke	22:39
31	The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 Hypatia	2:39
32	Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:31
33	The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian Roger Melin	34:03
34	Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck Alan Mapstone	7:11
35	The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron Nemo	5:37
36	Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	2:21
37	Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch April6090	15:32
38	The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch Jim Locke	15:45
39	How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott April6090	12:23
40	The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy Jim Locke	17:15
41	Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 Hypatia	1:26
42	Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Nemo	24:29
43	How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan realisticspeakers	18:38
44	Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:24
45	When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold fishfish	9:26
46	How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold Angelique G. Campbell	10:30
47	The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold Jim Locke	10:59
48	The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold Devorah Allen	6:47
49	Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	2:29
50	The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan Nigel Fisher	13:19
51	How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy Jim Locke	28:37
52	Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 Availle	2:45
53	How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy Ryan Copper	5:43
54	Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust fishfish	15:52
55	Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg Availle	9:28
56	On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus Alan Mapstone	1:58
57	Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note Hypatia	2:23
58	Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 Alan Mapstone	3:02
59	When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch Alan Mapstone	4:32
60	Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch Tomas Peter	6:37
61	The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude April6090	8:53
62	At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare Alan Mapstone	19:07
63	Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	2:16
64	Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan Hypatia	15:19
65	The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger April6090	6:04
66	A Roman bore, by Horace April6090	6:23
67	Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring Jim Locke	16:15
68	Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:57
69	The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould Jim Locke	21:19
70	In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 SaraHale	3:33
71	The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould April6090	17:14
72	The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Devorah Allen	16:56
73	A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens Availle	6:33
74	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	6:29
75	Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:51
76	''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 Alan Mapstone	3:23
77	The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron Tomas Peter	1:46
78	The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz thestorygirl	19:22
79	A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius Jim Locke	22:59
80	The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself April6090	12:18
81	''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490 Alan Mapstone	2:13
82	The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers Jim Locke	32:33
83	Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	2:17
84	Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan Laura Larson	8:48
85	Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware thestorygirl	14:44
86	The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett Monika M. C.	5:12
87	Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan April6090	10:39
88	Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note J. M. Smallheer	1:30
89	Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins eWinters	9:56
90	Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 Tomas Peter	2:40
91	How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy April6090	11:09
92	Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn eWinters	27:31
93	Justinian in council, painting p. 548 Sonia	2:33
94	Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sonia	3:59