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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

Various, William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925) et al.

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

Genre(s): Antiquity

Language: English

Group: World's Famous Orations

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle	alaskart	00:10:26
Play 02	Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers	alaskart	00:09:35
Play 03	Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law	alaskart	00:16:21
Play 04	Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops	DrPGould	00:11:58
Play 05	The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus	DrPGould	00:06:20
Play 06	The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus	DrPGould	00:04:08
Play 07	Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy	DrPGould	00:09:35
Play 08	Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin	DrPGould	00:13:14
Play 09	Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres	DrPGould	00:32:56
Play 10	Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1	DrPGould	00:16:59
Play 11	Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2	DrPGould	00:19:41
Play 12	Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline	Hollywood Fat Cat	00:34:20
Play 13	Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline	Hollywood Fat Cat	00:31:07
Play 14	Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet	DrPGould	00:27:09
Play 15	Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony	realisticspeakers	00:38:25
Play 16	Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1	realisticspeakers	00:27:58
Play 17	Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2	realisticspeakers	00:29:33
Play 18	Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar	Mayah	00:36:21
Play 19	Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy	Aaron Carlow	00:07:15
Play 20	Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle	DrPGould	00:04:18
Play 21	Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators	Owen Cook	00:14:37
Play 22	Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators	Owen Cook	00:14:33
Play 23	Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops	Owen Cook	00:04:55
Play 24	Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying	Owen Cook	00:02:21
Play 25	Seneca - To Nero When in Disfavor	Bill Mosley	00:05:42
Play 26	Otho - I - On Becoming Emperor	Jason in Panama	00:05:59
Play 27	Otho - II - To His Soldiers in Rome	Jason in Panama	00:06:19
Play 28	Otho - III - To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide	Jason in Panama	00:04:09
Play 29	Agricola - To His Army in Scotland	Owen Cook	00:05:34

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