The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome by Various. (Translated by William Patten.) Read in English by Gillian Hendrie The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. (summary from book introduction) This collection consists of Volume 3, including many tales from Homer and Virgil among others. - Summary by William Patten

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 15:01:30

Catalogue topics

• Virgil
• homer
• Legends
• Greek
• Roman
• tales
• folklore

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 00 - Preface and List of gods — 8:26
2. 01 - How Theseus slays the Minotaur Part 1 — 35:28
3. 02 - How Theseus slays the Minotaur Part 2 — 29:25
4. 03 - Pegasus, the Winged Horse — 50:56
5. 04 - The Heroes Sail Away in Search of the Golden Fleece — 15:33
6. 05 - How Jason Lost His Sandal — 17:05
7. 06 - How They Built the Ship Argo — 7:53
8. 07 - How the Argonauts Sailed to Colchis — 44:11
9. 08 - Hunting the Calydonian Boar — 36:20
10. 09 - The Winning of Atalanta — 41:10
11. 10 - Turning Everything into Gold — 37:19
12. 11 - The Pomegranate Seeds Part 1 — 43:00
13. 12 - The Pomegranate Seeds Part 2 — 29:36
14. 13 - The Trojan War — 6:36
15. 14 - The Quarrel of the Chiefs — 18:44
16. 15 - The Fight Between Paris and Menelaus — 12:49
17. 16 - The Duel Between Hector and Ajax — 13:13
18. 17 - The Deeds and Death of Patroclus — 13:25
19. 18 - The Death of Hector — 19:40
20. 19 - The Ransoming of Hector — 21:44
21. 20 - The Wooden Horse — 6:40
22. 21 - The Lotus-Eaters — 8:13
23. 22 - Ulysses and the Cyclops — 18:05
24. 23 - Circe’s Palace Part 1 — 43:33

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