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
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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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The last token, painting, frontispiece
02:33 - Chapter 2
Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note
02:05 - Chapter 3
The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox
22:34 - Chapter 4
The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides
12:14 - Chapter 5
The deification of Homer, painting p. 22
01:14 - Chapter 6
Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer
21:36 - Chapter 7
The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer
10:09 - Chapter 8
Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note
01:39 - Chapter 9
How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch
27:14 - Chapter 10
Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan
10:54 - Chapter 11
At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl
18:50 - Chapter 12
The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles
02:55 - Chapter 13
Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75
01:44 - Chapter 14
Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats
03:19 - Chapter 15
Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note
01:01 - Chapter 16
The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy
21:48 - Chapter 17
The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan
44:09 - Chapter 18
How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch
14:25 - Chapter 19
Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note
01:48 - Chapter 20
Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan
10:21 - Chapter 21
A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128
01:58 - Chapter 22
In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein
26:39 - Chapter 23
The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes
11:08 - Chapter 24
The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides
19:32 - Chapter 25
When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon
16:50 - Chapter 26
The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato
12:41 - Chapter 27
Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note
01:51 - Chapter 28
Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes
08:57 - Chapter 29
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch
08:52 - Chapter 30
In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough
22:39 - Chapter 31
The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204
02:39 - Chapter 32
Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note
01:31 - Chapter 33
The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian
34:03 - Chapter 34
Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck
07:11 - Chapter 35
The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron
05:37 - Chapter 36
Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note
02:21 - Chapter 37
Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch
15:32 - Chapter 38
The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch
15:45 - Chapter 39
How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott
12:23 - Chapter 40
The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy
17:15 - Chapter 41
Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268
01:26 - Chapter 42
Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay
24:29 - Chapter 43
How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan
18:38 - Chapter 44
Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note
01:24 - Chapter 45
When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold
09:26 - Chapter 46
How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold
10:30 - Chapter 47
The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold
10:59 - Chapter 48
The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold
06:47 - Chapter 49
Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note
02:29 - Chapter 50
The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan
13:19 - Chapter 51
How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy
28:37 - Chapter 52
Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336
02:45 - Chapter 53
How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy
05:43 - Chapter 54
Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust
15:52 - Chapter 55
Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg
09:28 - Chapter 56
On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus
01:58 - Chapter 57
Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note
02:23 - Chapter 58
Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368
03:02 - Chapter 59
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch
04:32 - Chapter 60
Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch
06:37 - Chapter 61
The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude
08:53 - Chapter 62
At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare
19:07 - Chapter 63
Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note
02:16 - Chapter 64
Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan
15:19 - Chapter 65
The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger
06:04 - Chapter 66
A Roman bore, by Horace
06:23 - Chapter 67
Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring
16:15 - Chapter 68
Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note
01:57 - Chapter 69
The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould
21:19 - Chapter 70
In the time of Nero, painting p. 430
03:33 - Chapter 71
The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould
17:14 - Chapter 72
The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
16:56 - Chapter 73
A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens
06:33 - Chapter 74
How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply
06:29 - Chapter 75
Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note
01:51 - Chapter 76
''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460
03:23 - Chapter 77
The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron
01:46 - Chapter 78
The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
19:22 - Chapter 79
A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius
22:59 - Chapter 80
The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself
12:18 - Chapter 81
''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490
02:13 - Chapter 82
The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers
32:33 - Chapter 83
Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note
02:17 - Chapter 84
Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan
08:48 - Chapter 85
Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware
14:44 - Chapter 86
The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett
05:12 - Chapter 87
Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan
10:39 - Chapter 88
Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note
01:30 - Chapter 89
Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins
09:56 - Chapter 90
Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540
02:40 - Chapter 91
How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
11:09 - Chapter 92
Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn
27:31 - Chapter 93
Justinian in council, painting p. 548
02:33 - Chapter 94
Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03:59