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The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

by Eva March TAPPAN (1854 - 1930)

Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note

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

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Listen next episodes of The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome:
A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128 , A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius , A Roman bore, by Horace , A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens , Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch , At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare , Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan , ''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490 , Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268 , Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch , Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368 , Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan , Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes , Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch , Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note , Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note , Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336 , Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay , How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy , How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold , How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy , How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott , How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy , How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan , How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply , Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540 , In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough , In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein , In the time of Nero, painting p. 430 , Justinian in council, painting p. 548 , Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck , Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan , Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust , On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus , Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn , Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan , ''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 , Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware , Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note , Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note , Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note , Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note , Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note , Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note , Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note , Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note , Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note , Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins , Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg , The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch , The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude , The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes , The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz , The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy , The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself , The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204 , The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato , The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron , The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould , The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould , The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold , The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold , The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron , The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger , The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett , The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan , The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian , The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides , The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers , When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch , When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold , When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon , Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring