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The Story of the Greeks

H. A. Guerber (1859 - 1929)

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by Ann Boulais

Genre(s): Short Stories, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Language: English

Keyword(s): Histories (7), greeks (3), children's short stories (2), ambleside list book (1), greek myths (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Donald Cummings	00:03:13
Play 01	Early Inhabitants of Greece	Drew Johnson	00:04:04
Play 02	The Deluge of Ogyges	Sieska	00:03:55
Play 03	The Found of Many Important Cities	DrCyCoe	00:05:16
Play 04	Story of Deucalion	DrCyCoe	00:03:45
Play 05	Story of Daedalus and Icaraus	Peter Badurek	00:05:01
Play 06	The Adventures of Jason	James Simenc	00:03:40
Play 07	Theseus visits the Labrinyth	DJRickyV	00:05:47
Play 08	The Terrible Prophecy	DrCyCoe	00:02:52
Play 09	The Sphinx's Riddle	SteveToner	00:04:56
Play 10	Blindness and Death of Oedipus	Rob Kaye	00:05:32
Play 11	The Brothers' Quarrel	Rob Kaye	00:04:29
Play 12	The Taking of Thebes	Mahmoud Hussein	00:03:07
Play 13	The Childhood of Paris	Marina Tsung	00:06:27
Play 14	The Muster of the Troops	DJRickyV	00:05:29
Play 15	The Sacrifice of Iphigenia	jmor90	00:02:24
Play 16	The Wrath of Achilles	jmor90	00:04:00
Play 17	The Death of Hector and Achilles	jmor90	00:02:46
Play 18	The Burning of Troy	jmor90	00:04:28
Play 19	Heroic Death of Codrus	jmor90	00:04:16
Play 20	The Blind Poet	jmor90	00:03:41
Play 21	The Rise of Sparta	Christine Stevens	00:03:44
Play 22	The Spartan Training	Grace-Ellen Meixner	00:03:12
Play 23	The Brave Spartan Boy	Donald Cummings	00:04:14
Play 24	Public Tables in Sparta	Miyune	00:03:15
Play 25	Laws of Lycurgus	apandya101	00:02:45
Play 26	The Messenian War	Grace-Ellen Meixner	00:04:13
Play 27	The Music of Tyrtaeus	Peregrinus Tyß	00:04:54
Play 28	Aristomenes' Escape	junefish	00:03:20
Play 29	The Olympic Games	Dean Tea	00:05:18
Play 30	Milo of Croton	Elise C. Boucher	00:03:08
Play 31	The Jealous Athlete	DrCyCoe	00:02:39
Play 32	The Girls' Games	ProseandProdigyManly	00:02:58
Play 33	The Bloody Laws of Draco	ProseandProdigyManly	00:06:06
Play 34	The Laws of Solon	Margaret Hutchins	00:04:50
Play 35	The First Plays	Mary Kay	00:04:12
Play 36	The Tyrant Pisistratus	SReisman	00:05:12
Play 37	The Tyrant's Insult	Amanda Vickery	00:02:49
Play 38	Death of the Conspirators	Sieska	00:03:30
Play 39	Hippias Driven out of Athens	Matthew Nerger	00:04:08
Play 40	The Great King	ScottReyonoldsVoice	00:02:56
Play 41	Hippias Visits Darius	jmor90	00:04:16
Play 42	Destruction of the Persian Host	jmor90	00:03:12
Play 43	The Advance of the Second Host	James Simenc	00:04:01
Play 44	The Battle of Marathon	Arup Sen	00:04:32
Play 45	Miltiades' Disgrace	Arup Sen	00:05:02
Play 46	Aristides the Just	Catherine Parkes	00:03:17
Play 47	Two Noble Spartan Youths	Catherine Parkes	00:04:17
Play 48	The Great Army	Alyssa Cain	00:02:38
Play 49	Preparations for Defense	Zen Wolfang	00:03:44
Play 50	Leonidas at Themorplyae	Zen Wolfang	00:02:46
Play 51	Death of Leonidas	Zen Wolfang	00:03:32
Play 52	The Burning of Athens	Zen Wolfang	00:03:00
Play 53	The Battles of Salamis and Plataea	Zen Wolfang	00:03:25
Play 54	The Rebuilding of Athens	Zen Wolfang	00:02:51
Play 55	Death of Pausanias	junefish	00:04:04
Play 56	Cimon improves Athens	Matthew Nerger	00:03:03
Play 57	The Earthquake	E. A. Young	00:05:29
Play 58	The Age of Pericles	vrodcruiser	00:04:59
Play 59	The Teachings of Anaxagoras	KaelEHeath	00:04:24
Play 60	Beginning of the Peloponnesian War	James Simenc	00:04:13
Play 61	Death of Pericles	SteveToner	00:03:59
Play 62	The Philosopher of Socrates	Zen Wolfang	00:03:29
Play 63	Socrates' Favorite Pupil	Ben Lindsey-Clark	00:05:22
Play 64	Youth of Alcibiades	Ben Lindsey-Clark	00:03:55
Play 65	Greek Colonies in Italy	Ben Lindsey-Clark	00:04:25
Play 66	Alcibiades in Disgrace	Ben Lindsey-Clark	00:04:03
Play 67	Death of Alcibiades	Ben Lindsey-Clark	00:04:28
Play 68	The Overthrow of theThirty Tyrants	Amanda Vickery	00:02:33
Play 69	Accusation of Socrates	Micky	00:04:06
Play 70	Death of Socrates	Micky	00:05:22
Play 71	The Defeat of Cyrus	Micky	00:03:47
Play 72	The Retreat of the Ten Thousand	Micky	00:04:19
Play 73	Agesilaus in Asia	Amanda Vickery	00:02:14
Play 74	A Strange Interview	Sharon V.	00:03:04
Play 75	The Peace of Antalcidas	Sharon V.	00:03:18
Play 76	The Theban Friends	adronek	00:03:02
Play 77	Thebes Free Once More	adronek	00:03:47
Play 78	The Battle of Leuctra	Matthew Nerger	00:03:00
Play 79	Death of Pelopidas	Matthew Nerger	00:02:54
Play 80	The Battle of Mantinea	Matthew Nerger	00:03:40
Play 81	The Tyrant of Syracuse	Matthew Nerger	00:03:42
Play 82	Story of Damon and Pythias	Arianne Stein	00:05:27
Play 83	The Sword of Damocles	SteveToner	00:03:48
Play 84	Dion and Dionysius	njohansen	00:04:16
Play 85	Civil War in Syracuse	njohansen	00:02:57
Play 86	Death of Dion	njohansen	00:03:23
Play 87	Philip of Macedon	wizardrywand	00:04:56
Play 88	Philip Begins His Conquests	wizardrywand	00:03:57
Play 89	The Orator Demosthenes	Robinhaynes	00:04:20
Play 90	Philip Masters Greece	Kenneth Thompson Marchesi	00:04:49
Play 91	Birth of Alexander	Kenneth Thompson Marchesi	00:04:08
Play 92	The Steed Bucephalus	Donald Cummings	00:03:51
Play 93	Alexander as King	Wilfred	00:04:22
Play 94	Alexander and Diogenes	Wilfred	00:04:18
Play 95	Alexander's Brilliant Beginning	Wilfred	00:04:32
Play 96	The Gordian Knot	Wilfred	00:03:58
Play 97	Alexander's Royal Captives	Wilfred	00:03:15
Play 98	Alexander at Jerusalem	ScottReyonoldsVoice	00:03:45
Play 99	The African Desert	Wilfred	00:04:32
Play 100	Death of Darius	Wilfred	00:04:22
Play 101	Death of Porus	Wilfred	00:04:02
Play 102	The Return to Babylon	Wilfred	00:02:58
Play 103	Death of Alexander the Great	ScottReyonoldsVoice	00:03:53
Play 104	The Division of the Realm	Wilfred	00:03:37
Play 105	Death of Demosthenes	wizardrywand	00:04:04
Play 106	The Last of the Athenians	wizardrywand	00:03:50
Play 107	The Colossus of Rhodes	James Simenc	00:05:03
Play 108	The Battle of Ipsus	Matthew Nerger	00:02:28
Play 109	Demetrius and the Athenians	Matthew Nerger	00:02:28
Play 110	The Achaean League	Matthew Nerger	00:03:59
Play 111	Division in Sparta	James Simenc	00:05:00
Play 112	Death of Agis	Matthew Nerger	00:02:58
Play 113	The War of the Two Leagues	Matthew Nerger	00:03:38
Play 114	The Last of the Greeks	Matthew Nerger	00:02:46
Play 115	Greece a Roman Province	BeniaminoMassimo	00:03:48

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