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The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930)

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

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Poetry, War & Military Fiction

Language: English

Group: World's Story

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The last token, painting, frontispiece	Sonia	00:02:33
Play 02	Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note	Sonia	00:02:05
Play 03	The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox	Sonia	00:22:34
Play 04	The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides	Group	00:12:14
Play 05	The deification of Homer, painting p. 22	Sonia	00:01:14
Play 06	Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer	Jim Locke	00:21:36
Play 07	The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer	Jim Locke	00:10:09
Play 08	Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note	Monika M. C.	00:01:39
Play 09	How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch	Jim Locke	00:27:14
Play 10	Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan	Jim Locke	00:10:54
Play 11	At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl	Jim Locke	00:18:50
Play 12	The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles	Tomas Peter	00:02:55
Play 13	Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75	Jim Locke	00:01:44
Play 14	Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats	Nemo	00:03:19
Play 15	Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:01
Play 16	The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy	Jim Locke	00:21:48
Play 17	The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan	Jim Locke	00:44:09
Play 18	How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch	K.T.B.	00:14:25
Play 19	Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:48
Play 20	Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan	Colleen McMahon	00:10:21
Play 21	A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128	K.T.B.	00:01:58
Play 22	In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein	Colleen McMahon	00:26:39
Play 23	The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes	Group	00:11:08
Play 24	The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides	Colleen McMahon	00:19:32
Play 25	When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon	Colleen McMahon	00:16:50
Play 26	The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato	Availle	00:12:41
Play 27	Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:51
Play 28	Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes	Richard Potenza	00:08:57
Play 29	Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch	April6090	00:08:52
Play 30	In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough	Jim Locke	00:22:39
Play 31	The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204	Hypatia	00:02:39
Play 32	Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:31
Play 33	The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian	Group	00:34:03
Play 34	Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck	Alan Mapstone	00:07:11
Play 35	The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron	Nemo	00:05:37
Play 36	Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:21
Play 37	Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch	April6090	00:15:32
Play 38	The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch	Jim Locke	00:15:45
Play 39	How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott	April6090	00:12:23
Play 40	The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy	Jim Locke	00:17:15
Play 41	Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268	Hypatia	00:01:26
Play 42	Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay	Nemo	00:24:29
Play 43	How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan	realisticspeakers	00:18:38
Play 44	Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:24
Play 45	When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold	Ting Cleary	00:09:26
Play 46	How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold	Angelique G. Campbell	00:10:30
Play 47	The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold	Jim Locke	00:10:59
Play 48	The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold	Devorah Allen	00:06:47
Play 49	Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:29
Play 50	The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan	Nigel Fisher	00:13:19
Play 51	How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy	Jim Locke	00:28:37
Play 52	Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336	Availle	00:02:45
Play 53	How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy	Ryan Copper	00:05:43
Play 54	Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust	Ting Cleary	00:15:52
Play 55	Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg	Availle	00:09:28
Play 56	On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus	Alan Mapstone	00:01:58
Play 57	Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note	Hypatia	00:02:23
Play 58	Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368	Alan Mapstone	00:03:02
Play 59	When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch	Alan Mapstone	00:04:32
Play 60	Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch	Tomas Peter	00:06:37
Play 61	The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude	April6090	00:08:53
Play 62	At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare	Group	00:19:07
Play 63	Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:16
Play 64	Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan	Hypatia	00:15:19
Play 65	The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger	April6090	00:06:04
Play 66	A Roman bore, by Horace	April6090	00:06:23
Play 67	Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring	Jim Locke	00:16:15
Play 68	Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:57
Play 69	The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould	Jim Locke	00:21:19
Play 70	In the time of Nero, painting p. 430	SaraHale	00:03:33
Play 71	The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould	April6090	00:17:14
Play 72	The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton	Devorah Allen	00:16:56
Play 73	A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens	Availle	00:06:33
Play 74	How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply	Devorah Allen	00:06:29
Play 75	Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:51
Play 76	''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460	Alan Mapstone	00:03:23
Play 77	The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron	Tomas Peter	00:01:46
Play 78	The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz	thestorygirl	00:19:22
Play 79	A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius	Jim Locke	00:22:59
Play 80	The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself	April6090	00:12:18
Play 81	''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490	Alan Mapstone	00:02:13
Play 82	The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers	Jim Locke	00:32:33
Play 83	Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:17
Play 84	Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan	Laura Larson	00:08:48
Play 85	Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware	thestorygirl	00:14:44
Play 86	The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett	Monika M. C.	00:05:12
Play 87	Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan	April6090	00:10:39
Play 88	Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:30
Play 89	Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins	eWinters	00:09:56
Play 90	Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540	Tomas Peter	00:02:40
Play 91	How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy	April6090	00:11:09
Play 92	Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn	eWinters	00:27:31
Play 93	Justinian in council, painting p. 548	Sonia	00:02:33
Play 94	Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Sonia	00:03:59

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