The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome, credited to Eva March Tappan, 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 Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; alanmapstone; Monika M. C.; Tomas Peter; Devorah Allen; Foon; Jim Locke; Nemo; J. M. Smallheer; K.T.B.; Colleen McMahon; TJ Burns; Richard Potenza; April6090; Hypatia; Roger Melin; ToddHW; Larry Wilson; Son of the Exiles; Sandra Schmit; SaraHale; Craig Franklin; Eva Davis; Angelique G. Campbell; realisticspeakers; Ting Cleary; Nigel Fisher; Ryan Copper; thestorygirl; Laura Larson; eWinters 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
• Author credits: Eva March Tappan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 94
• Listed recording duration: 16:44:01

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• mythology
• Roman Empire
• julius caesar
• alexander the great

Opening tracks: first 24 of 94

1. 01 - The last token, painting, frontispiece — 2:33
2. 02 - Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note — 2:05
3. 03 - The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox — 22:34
4. 04 - The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides — 12:13
5. 05 - The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 — 1:14
6. 06 - Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer — 21:36
7. 07 - The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer — 10:09
8. 08 - Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note — 1:39
9. 09 - How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch — 27:14
10. 10 - Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan — 10:54
11. 11 - At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl — 18:50
12. 12 - The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles — 2:55
13. 13 - Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 — 1:44
14. 14 - Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats — 3:19
15. 15 - Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note — 1:01
16. 16 - The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy — 21:48
17. 17 - The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan — 44:09
18. 18 - How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch — 14:25
19. 19 - Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note — 1:48
20. 20 - Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan — 10:21
21. 21 - A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 — 1:58
22. 22 - In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein — 26:39
23. 23 - The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes — 11:08
24. 24 - The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides — 19:32

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