World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

by Eva March Tappan

Historical Fiction Poetry War & Military Fiction History Philosophy

94 chapters16h 44mEnglish1914

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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

Chapters (94)

1The last token, painting, frontispiece

153

2Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note

125

3The story of Oedipus, by Sophocles, retold by Rev. G. W. Cox

1354

4The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides

734

5The deification of Homer, painting p. 22

6Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer

1296

7The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer

609

8Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note

9How the Spartan boys were trained (about the ninth century B.C.), by Plutarch

1634

10Solon, who made laws for the Athenians (639-559 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan

654

11At the Olympian Games (after the eighth century B.C.), by Charles Diehl

1130

12The chariot race (after the eighth century B.C.), by Sophocles

175

13Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75

104

14Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats

199

15Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note

16The battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), by E. S. Creasy

1308

17The Lemnian: a story of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), by John Buchan

2649

18How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) by Plutarch

865

19Greece Part IV: The Golden Age of Athens: Historical note

108

20Pericles and his age (465-429 B.C.) by Eva March Tappan

621

21A religious procession in honor of Apollo, painting p. 128

118

22In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein

1599

23The bout between the poets (405 B.C.) by Aristophanes

668

24The siege of Plataea (427 B.C.) by Thucydides

1172

25When the ten thousand came to sea (400 B.C.) by Xenophon

1010

26The death of Socrates (399 B.C.) by Plato

761

27Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note

111

28Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes

537

29Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) by Plutarch

532

30In the studio of Apelles (4th century B.C.) by Henry Greenough

1359

31The death of Alexander the Great, painting p. 204

159

32Greece Part VI: From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century: Historical note

33The sale of the philosophers (second century A.D.) by Lucian

2043

34Marco Bozzaris (1823), by Fitz-Greene Halleck

431

35The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron

337

36Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note

141

37Funeral games in honor of Anchises, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

932

38The arrival of Aeneas in Italy, by Virgil, from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

945

39How Rome was founded (753 B.C. ?), by Jacob Abbott

743

40The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii (about 650 B.C. ?), by Livy

1035

41Brutus condemning his sons to death, painting p. 268

42Horatius (508 B.C. ?), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

1469

43How the Plebeians won their rights, by Eva March Tappan

1118

44Rome Part II: Stories of the Italian wars: Historical note

45When Coriolanus spared Rome (490 B.C. ?), by Thomas Arnold

566

46How Cincinnatus saved the consul (455 B.C.), by Thomas Arnold

630

47The fall of Veii (396 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold

659

48The geese that saved the Capitol (364 B.C.) by Thomas Arnold

407

49Rome Part III: Rome becomes mistress of the world: Historical note

149

50The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways, by Eva March Tappan

799

51How Hannibal made his way to Italy (218 B.C.), by Livy

1717

52Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336

165

53How Archimedes defended Syracuse (212 B.C.), by Livy

343

54Marius to the Roman people (106 B.C.), by Sallust

952

55Spartacus to the gladiators (73 B.C.), by Elijah Kellogg

568

56On the death of Lesbia's sparrow, by Catullus

118

57Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note

143

58Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate, painting p. 368

182

59When Caesar crossed the Rubicon (49 B.C.), by Plutarch

272

60Caesar at the height of his power (48-44 B.C.), by Plutarch

397

61The assassination of Caesar (44 B.C.) by James Anthony Froude

533

62At the funeral of Caesar (44 B.C.) by William Shakespeare

1147

63Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

136

64Augustus, the shrewd young emperor (emperor 31 B.C.-14 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan

919

65The letter of a Roman university student (44 B.C.), by Cicero the Younger

364

66A Roman bore, by Horace

383

67Why Ovid was banished (10 A.D.), by Maurice Baring

975

68Rome Part VI: Rome under the Caesars: Historical note

117

69The fall of Sejanus (27 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould

1279

70In the time of Nero, painting p. 430

213

71The emperor Nero on the stage (67 A.D.) by S. Baring-Gould

1034

72The destruction of Pompeii (79 A.D.) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

1016

73A visit to Pompeii (nineteenth century) by Charles Dickens

393

74How to treat the Christians (112 A.D.) a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan, and the emperor's reply

389

75Rome Part VII: How the Romans amused themselves: Historical note

111

76''Pollice verso'' (''Thumbs down''), painting p. 460

203

77The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron

106

78The Christian martyrs in the arena (64 A.D.) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

1162

79A Roman banquet, by W. A. Becker, adapted from Petronius

1379

80The country house of Pliny the Younger (end of the first century A.D.), described by himself

738

81''Ave Caesar'' (''Hail, Caesar''), painting p. 490

133

82The winning of the first missus (about 391 A.D.) by Georg Ebers

1953

83Rome Part VIII: The grandeur that was Rome: Historical note

137

84Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor (121-180 A.D.), by Eva March Tappan

528

85Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors (273 A.D.), by William Ware

884

86The Roman roads, by J. R. S. Sterrett

312

87Constantine the Great (born about 270 A.D. Emperor, 306-337), by Eva March Tappan

639

88Rome Part IX: The coming of the Barbarians: Historical note

89Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth (409 A.D.), by Wilkie Collins

596

90Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540

160

91How the empire was saved from the Huns (451 A.D.), by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

669

92Peace with the Goths or war ? (535 A.D.), by Felix Dahn

1651

93Justinian in council, painting p. 548

153

94Belisarius (505-564 A.D.), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

239

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