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The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

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

This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or traditional) orations and speeches. - Summary by Carolin

Genre(s): Antiquity

Language: English

Group: World's Famous Orations

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Preface	Jason in Panama	00:05:40
Play 02	Introduction	SK	00:24:15
Play 03	Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys by Homer	Kathrine Engan	00:09:59
Play 04	Pericles - I. - In Favor of the Peloponnesian War	THBosc	00:13:08
Play 05	Pericles - II. - On Those Who Died in the War	THBosc	00:17:29
Play 06	Pericles - III. - In Defense of Himself	THBosc	00:10:42
Play 07	Cleon - On the Punishment of the Mytileneans	THBosc	00:11:27
Play 08	Alcibiades - I. - In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily	Andrew Philologus	00:11:05
Play 09	Alcibiades - II. - To the Spartans	Jordan Watts	00:03:15
Play 10	Nicias - Against the Sicilian Expedition		00:08:12
Play 11	Hermocrates - On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders	Linda Johnson	00:10:34
Play 12	Lysias - Against Eratosthenes	Brian Murphy	00:05:29
Play 13	Socrates - I. - In His Own Defense	Brad Schliesser	00:18:09
Play 14	Socrates - II. - On Being Declared Guilty	Brad Schliesser	00:07:34
Play 15	Socrates - III. - On Being Condemned to Death	Brad Schliesser	00:10:49
Play 16	Isocrates - On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia	Gail Nelson	00:17:10
Play 17	Isaeus - In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares	THBosc	00:13:20
Play 18	Demosthenes - I. - The Second Oration Against Philip	Ann Boulais	00:17:30
Play 19	Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 1	Jim Locke	00:19:20
Play 20	Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 2	Jim Locke	00:17:36
Play 21	Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 1	Andrew Philologus	00:30:36
Play 22	Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 2	Jim Locke	00:22:50
Play 23	Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 3	Jim Locke	00:26:18
Play 24	Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 1	THBosc	00:26:17
Play 25	Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 2	THBosc	00:28:44
Play 26	Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 3	THBosc	00:22:35
Play 27	Dinarchus - Against Demosthenes	DJRickyV	00:18:27

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