Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

Poetry

The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

by 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

Listen next episodes of The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome:
A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius , A Roman bore, by Horace , A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens , 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 , Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan , How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy , 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 time of Nero, painting p. 430 , Justinian in council, painting p. 548 , Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan , Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn , ''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460 , Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware , Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: 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 , The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz , The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself , 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 letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger , The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett , The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers , Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring