Commentaries on the Gallic War: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Commentaries on the Gallic War, credited to Caesar, Gaius Julius, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Commentaries on the Gallic War, by Gaius Julius Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed Roman domination. The work has been a mainstay in the teaching of Latin to schoolchildren, its simple, direct prose lending itself to that purpose. It begins with the frequently quoted phrase "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres", sometimes quoted as "Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est", meaning "All Gaul is divided into three parts". (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Commentaries on the Gallic War
• Author credits: Caesar, Gaius Julius
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 7:16:13

Catalogue topics

• Latin literature
• Caesar
• Gaul
• Gallic war.

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Introduction — 9:52
2. 01 - Book I ch.1-9 — 10:44
3. 02 - Book I ch.10-15 — 7:59
4. 03 - Book I ch.16-29 — 17:22
5. 04 - Book I ch.30-41 — 17:58
6. 05 - Book I ch.42-54 — 15:44
7. 06 - Book II ch.1-15 — 18:22
8. 07 - Book II ch.16-35 — 21:07
9. 08 - Book III ch.1-16 — 17:05
10. 09 - Book III ch.17-29 — 12:54
11. 10 - Book IV ch.1-15 — 16:24
12. 11 - Book IV ch.16-19 — 6:51
13. 12 - Book IV ch.20-38 — 20:29
14. 13 - Book V ch.1-14 — 19:21
15. 14 - Book V ch.15-23 — 10:45
16. 15 - Book V ch.24-37 — 17:44
17. 16 - Book V ch.38-58 — 26:27
18. 17 - Book VI ch.1-8 — 11:23
19. 18 - Book VI ch.9-28 — 22:46
20. 19 - Book VI ch.29-44 — 20:22
21. 20 - Book VII ch.1-13 — 16:54
22. 21 - Book VII ch.14-28 — 20:00
23. 22 - Book VII ch.29-41 — 18:25
24. 23 - Book VII ch.42-51 — 12:20

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