Hellenic History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hellenic History, credited to George Willis Botsford, 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 Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford. Read in English by Beth Thomas (1974-2020); ChadH94; MajorHistory; Emanuela; Wes Freeman; Sim; MorganScorpion; Kazbek; Jane Bennett; Ryan Fahey; KevinS; Jason Daves. With help from Lynette Caulkins. In memory of Beth Thomas. "The purpose of this volume is to present in brief scope the evolution of Greek civilization a culture simple in its essential unity, although seemingly complex in its many and wide ramifications. In the conviction that the chief aim of history is to explain the present, the author has centered his attention on those phases of Greek life which have influenced to a marked degree the civilization of today." "In short this book represents an effort to combine political, economic, social and cultural history in one synthesis, centering attention on those factors which have contributed essentially to modern civilization." "The Hellenic History is intended to serve primarily as a text-book for college courses in Greek history, and as a guide to the reader who is interested in one or more phases of Greek achievement." (From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hellenic History
• Author credits: George Willis Botsford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 20:55:09

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Introduction — 5:28
2. 01 - Country and People — 13:31
3. 02 - The Minoan Age — 56:49
4. 03 - The Middle Age: Transition from Minoan to Hellenic Life — 1:01:27
5. 04 - Economic Growth and Colonial Expansion — 42:54
6. 05 - Evolution of the City-State, Amphictyonies and Leagues — 37:03
7. 06 - Crete, Lacedaemon and the Peleponnesian League — 1:03:29
8. 07 - Athens: From Monarchy to Democracy — 58:57
9. 08 - Intellectual Awakening: 1, Social and Literary Progress — 28:27
10. 09 - Intellectual Awakening: 2, Religious, Moral and Scientific Progress — 44:23
11. 10 - Conquest of the Asiatic Greeks by the Lydians and Persians — 22:47
12. 11 - The War with Persia and Carthage — 52:47
13. 12 - The Age of the War Heroes: 1, Political and Economic — 1:12:46
14. 13 - The Age of the War Heroes: 2, Society and Culture — 56:39
15. 14 - The Age of Pericles: 1, Imperialism — 36:43
16. 15 - The Age of Pericles: 2, The Athenian Democracy — 26:29
17. 16 - The Age of Pericles: 3, Society and Public Works — 39:38
18. 17 - The Age of Pericles: 4, Thought, Culture and Character — 1:11:48
19. 18 - The Peloponnesian War to the Beginning of the Sicilian Expedition — 35:20
20. 19 - The Sicilian Expedition and the Last Years of the War — 31:06
21. 20 - A Cultural Revolution — 59:33
22. 21 - The Lacedaemonian Empire and the Ascendancy of Thebes — 45:49
23. 22 - Sicily and Magna Graecia — 14:54
24. 23 - The Rise of Macedon to 337 — 25:52

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