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94 of 94 (100%) sections completed
This project has a dedicated proof-listener who will listen to all sections: Kitty
Section | Title | Reader | Notes | Listen Url | Status |
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1 | The last token, painting, frontispiece | Kitty | PL OK | ||
2 | Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note | Kitty | PL OK | ||
3 | The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox | Kitty | PL OK | ||
4 | The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides | alanmapstone moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe mightyfelix Foon | PL OK | ||
5 | The deification of Homer, painting p. 22 | Kitty | PL OK | ||
6 | Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
7 | The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
8 | Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
9 | How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
10 | Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
11 | At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
12 | The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
13 | Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75 | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
14 | Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats | NemoR | PL OK | ||
15 | Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
16 | The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
17 | The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
18 | How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch | KTBMedia | PL OK | ||
19 | Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
20 | Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
21 | A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 | KTBMedia | PL OK | ||
22 | In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
23 | The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes | alanmapstone moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe NemoR benderca Foon | PL OK | ||
24 | The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
25 | When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
26 | The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato | Availle | PL OK | ||
27 | Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
28 | Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes | rpotenza | PL OK | ||
29 | Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
30 | In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
31 | The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
32 | Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
33 | The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian | Roger ToddHW alanmapstone moniaqua silverquill SonOfTheExiles catharmaiden Kitty WiltedScribe neecheelok70 SaraHale adr6090 mightyfelix Craigos bluechien NemoR benderca Foon BurgundyGrace | PL OK | ||
34 | Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
35 | The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron | NemoR | PL OK | ||
36 | Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
37 | Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
38 | The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
39 | How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
40 | The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
41 | Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
42 | Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay | NemoR | PL OK | ||
43 | How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan | realisticspeakers | PL OK | ||
44 | Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
45 | When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold | Fishfish | PL OK | ||
46 | How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold | BurgundyGrace | PL OK | ||
47 | The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
48 | The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
49 | Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
50 | The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan | RufusNight | PL OK | ||
51 | How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
52 | Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 | Availle | PL OK | ||
53 | How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy | ehrgeiziges | PL OK | ||
54 | Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust | Fishfish | PL OK | ||
55 | Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg | Availle | PL OK | ||
56 | On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
57 | Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
58 | Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
59 | When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
60 | Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
61 | The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
62 | At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare | alanmapstone moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe NemoR benderca Foon | PL OK | ||
63 | Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
64 | Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
65 | The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
66 | A Roman bore, by Horace | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
67 | Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
68 | Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
69 | The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
70 | In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 | SaraHale | PL OK | ||
71 | The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
72 | The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
73 | A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens | Availle | PL OK | ||
74 | How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
75 | Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
76 | ''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
77 | The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
78 | The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz | thestorygirl | PL OK | ||
79 | A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
80 | The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
81 | ''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
82 | The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
83 | Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
84 | Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan | Calleola | PL OK | ||
85 | Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware | thestorygirl | PL OK | ||
86 | The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
87 | Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
88 | Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
89 | Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins | eWinters | PL OK | ||
90 | Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
91 | How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
92 | Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn | eWinters | PL OK | ||
93 | Justinian in council, painting p. 548 | Kitty | PL OK | ||
94 | Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Kitty | PL OK |