The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome, credited to Various; William Jennings Bryan; Francis Whiting Halsey, 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 World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome by Various; William Jennings Bryan; Francis Whiting Halsey. Read in English by alaskart; DrPGould; Hollywood Fat Cat; realisticspeakers; Mayah; Aaron Carlow; Owen Cook; Bill Mosley; Jason in Panama In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. This is the second volume in this series, in which the most famous speeches of great Roman statesmen are collected, including Cicero, Seneca, and Julius Caesar. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome
• Author credits: Various; William Jennings Bryan; Francis Whiting Halsey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:31:48

Catalogue topics

• politics
• rome
• Roman Empire
• speech
• Caesar
• speeches
• Cicero
• Seneca

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle — 10:26
2. 02 - Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers — 9:35
3. 03 - Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law — 16:21
4. 04 - Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops — 11:58
5. 05 - The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus — 6:20
6. 06 - The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus — 4:08
7. 07 - Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy — 9:35
8. 08 - Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin — 13:14
9. 09 - Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres — 32:56
10. 10 - Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1 — 16:59
11. 11 - Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2 — 19:41
12. 12 - Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline — 34:20
13. 13 - Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline — 31:07
14. 14 - Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet — 27:09
15. 15 - Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony — 38:25
16. 16 - Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1 — 27:58
17. 17 - Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2 — 29:33
18. 18 - Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar — 36:21
19. 19 - Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy — 7:15
20. 20 - Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle — 4:18
21. 21 - Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators — 14:37
22. 22 - Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators — 14:33
23. 23 - Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops — 4:55
24. 24 - Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying — 2:21

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