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Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy’s challenge to fight. – Summary by Arthur Krolman for Librivox
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This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of “Republic” and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates, as presented by Plato, shine forth in this wonderful work on sophistry and other forms of persuasion or cookery. (Summary by Kevin Johnson for Librivox)
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Run time: 7 hours, 6 minutes
Meno (Ancient Greek: ?????) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The goal is a common definition that applies equally to all particular virtues. Socrates moves the discussion past the philosophical confusion, or aporia, created by Meno’s paradox (aka the learner’s paradox) with the introduction of new Platonic ideas: the theory of knowledge as recollection, anamnesis, and in the final lines a movement towards Platonic idealism.. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
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Run time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
Summary: This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! – (Summary by Ann Boulais for Librivox)
Running time: 7:35
The Found of Many Important Cities
Blindness and Death of Oedipus
The Death of Hector and Achilles
Destruction of the Persian Host
The Advance of the Second Host
The Battles of Salamis and Plataea
Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
The Overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
Summary:?Typically, Henty’s heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: “…certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly one for existence on the part of Carthage, that Hannibal was a great and skilful general, that he defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome, and that the Romans behaved with bad faith and great cruelty at the capture of Carthage, represents, I think, pretty nearly the sum total of our knowledge. ” (from the preface)
Richard Scary on Ancient Ruins.
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VIRGIL (70 BC – 19 BC), translated by John DRYDEN (1631 – 1700)
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)
Running time: 13 hours, 40 minutes
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Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 1
Book 1: A Fateful Haven, part 2
Book 2: How they took the City, part 1
Book 2: How they took the City, part 2
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 1
Book 3: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, part 2
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 1
Book 4: The Passion of the Queen, part 2
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 1
Book 5: Games and a Conflagration, part 2
Book 6: The World Below, part 1
Book 6: The World Below, part 2
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 1
Book 7: Juno Served by a Fury, part 2
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 1
Book 8: Arcadian Allies, part 2
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 1
Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 2
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 1
Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 2
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 1
Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 2
The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of “corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel” (24b). “Apology” here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word “apologia”) of speaking in defense of a cause or of one’s beliefs or actions. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Summary: Book I of the “Story of the World” series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the entire Mediterranean by Rome. Important myths and legends that preceded recorded history are also related. Ages 9-18 (Summary from the Baldwin Project)
Total running time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
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# 05 – The Story of the Nile Flood
# 09 – The First Merchant Fleet
# 16 – The Story of the Argonauts
# 18 – The Adventures of Ulysses
# 27 – How Leonidas Kept the Pass
# 33 – Retreat of the Ten Thousand
# 34 – The Story of Romulus and Remus
# 35 – How Horatius Kept the Bridge
# 46 – The Adventures of Hannibal
Summary: All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!
Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus (and of course, our favorite, Mr. Minotaur, too). Written in Hawthorne’s interesting and beautiful style, these stories will be a great delight to read AND listen to. (Summary by Neeru Iyer for Librivox)
Total running time:? 6 hours, 28 minutes
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00 – The Wayside. Introductory.
06 – The Dragon’s Teeth (Part 1)
07 – The Dragon’s Teeth (Part 2)
08 – The Dragon’s Teeth (Part 3)
12 – The Pomegranate Seed (Part 1)
13 – The Pomegranate Seed (Part 2)
14 – The Pomegranate Seed (Part 3)
1200 BC – Fall of Troy
480 BC – Thermopolae
399 BC – Death of Socrates
September 30, 331 BC? Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace Offer
October 1, 331 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia
September, 326 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India
August 26, 79 BC – The Last Day of Pompeii
December 5, 63 BC – The Conspiracy of Catiline
44 BC – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
December 25, 800 – Charlemagne
October 14, 1066 – The Battle of Hastings
June 15, 1215 – The Signing of the Magna Charta
May 30, 1431 – Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
April 7, 1498 – The Ordeal of Savonarola
June 15, 1520 – The Death of Montezuma
October 3, 1574 – The Siege of Leiden, Holland
February 8, 1587 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
August 8, 1588 – Drake Defeats Spanish Armada
January, 1649 – The Trial and Sentencing of Charles I
September 5, 1670 – Trial of William Penn
May 23, 1701 – The Hanging of Captain Kidd
June 22, 1757 – The Battle of Plassey
July 14, 1789 – The Storming of the Bastille
October 16, 1793 – The Trial of Marie Antoinette
May 6, 1802 – Toussaint Louverture Liberates Haiti
March 7, 1815 – Napoleon Returns from Elba
July 31, 1815 – Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled
October 25, 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade
June 19, 1867 – The Execution of Maximillian
September 8, 1899 – The Dreyfus Case
Summary: There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer’s aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness. This volume is dedicated to Hannibal. (Summary from the preface of the book)
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Running time: 6 hours, 12 minutes
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03 – Opening of the Second Punic War
05 – Hannibal Crosses the Alps, pt.1
06 – Hannibal Crosses the Alps, Part 2
07 – Hannibal in the North of Italy
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Total running time: 14 hours, 30 minutes
# 01 – The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
# 03 – Paris Challenges Menelaus
# 08 – The Victory of the Trojans
# 09 – The Embassy to Achilles
# 10 – Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies
# 11 – Agamemnon’s Day of Glory
# 12 – The Trojans Break the Wall
# 13 – Neptune helps the Achaeans
# 14 – Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home
# 16 – Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles
# 17 – The Light around the Body of Patroclus
# 19 – Achilles Goes Out to Fight
# 21 – Achilles Drives the Trojans Back
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Running time: 6 hours, 44 minutes
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Total Running time: 20 hours, 58 minutes
Peloponnesian War: Book 1, ch. 01 00:31:15
Peloponnesian War: Book 1, ch. 02 00:49:49
Peloponnesian War: Book 1, ch. 03 00:33:15
Peloponnesian War: Book 1, ch. 04 00:36:16
Peloponnesian War: Book 1, ch. 05 00:45:39
Peloponnesian War: Book 2, ch. 06 01:02:43
Peloponnesian War: Book 2, ch. 07 00:38:16
Peloponnesian War: Book 2, ch. 08 00:53:24
Peloponnesian War: Book 3, ch. 09 01:00:07
Peloponnesian War: Book 3, ch. 10 00:44:41
Peloponnesian War: Book 3, ch. 11 00:32:30
Peloponnesian War: Book 4, ch. 12 00:45:30
Peloponnesian War: Book 4, ch. 13 00:34:59
Peloponnesian War: Book 4, ch. 14 01:08:15
Peloponnesian War: Book 5, ch. 15 00:40:33
Peloponnesian War: Book 5, ch. 16 01:35:19
Peloponnesian War: Book 5, ch. 17 00:22:26
Peloponnesian War: Book 6, ch. 18 00:55:27
Peloponnesian War: Book 6, ch. 19 00:49:32
Peloponnesian War: Book 6, ch. 20 01:16:10
Peloponnesian War: Book 7, ch. 21 00:54:12
Peloponnesian War: Book 7, ch. 22 00:13:36
Peloponnesian War: Book 7, ch. 23 00:54:05
Peloponnesian War: Book 8, ch. 24 00:55:56
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
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Total running time: 23 hours, 26 minutes
Chapter 1 Book 1, Ch 01-02 00:16:11
Chapter 2 Book 1, Ch 03-04 00:16:27
Chapter 3 Book 1, Ch 05-06 00:14:44
Chapter 4 Book 1, Ch 07-08 00:20:03
Chapter 5 Book 1, Ch 09-10 00:16:51
Chapter 6 Book 1, Ch 11-12 00:14:48
Chapter 7 Book 1, Ch 13-14 00:18:26
Chapter 8 Book 1,Ch 15-16 00:17:40
Chapter 9 Book 1, Ch 17-18 00:19:54
Chapter 10 Book 1, Ch 19-20 00:19:44
Chapter 11 Book 1, Ch 21-22 00:22:44
Chapter 12 Book 1, Ch 23-24 00:23:55
Chapter 13 Book 1, Ch 25-26 00:19:32
Chapter 14 Book 1, Ch 27-28 00:17:22
Chapter 15 Book 1, Ch 29-30 00:16:34
Chapter 16 Book 1, Ch 31-32 00:20:49
Chapter 17 Book 1, Ch 33 00:12:46
Chapter 18 Book 2, Ch 01-02 00:15:07
Chapter 19 Book 2, Ch 03-05 00:13:37
Chapter 20 Book 2, Ch 06-07 00:13:17
Chapter 21 Book 2, Ch 08-09 00:34:28
Chapter 22 Book 2, Ch 10-11 00:17:33
Chapter 23 Book 2, Ch 12-13 00:20:43
Chapter 24 Book 2, Ch 14-15 00:25:12
Chapter 25 Book 2, Ch 16 00:26:49
Chapter 26 Book 2, Ch 17 00:16:21
Chapter 27 Book 2 Ch 18 00:20:15
Chapter 28 Book 2, Ch 19 00:18:34
Chapter 29 Book 2, Ch 20 00:14:45
Chapter 30 Book 2, Ch 21-22 00:24:04
Chapter 31 Book 3, Ch 01-03 00:18:23
Chapter 32 Book 3, Ch 04-06 00:22:25
Chapter 33 Book 3, Ch 07 part 1 00:25:27
Chapter 34 Book 3, Ch 07 part 2 00:26:59
Chapter 35 Book 3, Ch 08 00:18:38
Chapter 36 Book 3, Ch 09 00:12:35
Chapter 37 Book 3, Ch 10 00:22:40
Chapter 38 Book 4, Ch 01 00:22:44
Chapter 39 Book 4, Ch 02 00:10:54
Chapter 40 Book 4, Ch 03 00:32:07
Chapter 41 Book 4, Ch 04 00:23:20
Chapter 42 Book 4, Ch 05 00:17:29
Chapter 43 Book 4, Ch 06 00:12:48
Chapter 44 Book 4, Ch 07 00:16:07
Chapter 45 Book 4, Ch 08 00:14:26
Chapter 46 Book 4, Ch 09 00:24:38
Chapter 47 Book 4, Ch 10 00:16:40
Chapter 48 Book 4, Ch 11 00:10:40
Chapter 49 Book 5, Ch 01 00:19:35
Chapter 50 Book 5, Ch 02 00:17:08
Chapter 51 Book 5, Ch 03-04 00:27:56
Chapter 52 Book 5, Ch 05 00:23:46
Chapter 53 Book 5, Ch 06 00:15:51
Chapter 54 Book 5, Ch 07-08 00:17:49
Chapter 55 Book 5, Ch 09 00:24:53
Chapter 56 Book 5, Ch 10-11 00:22:07
Chapter 57 Book 5, Ch 12-13 00:24:12
Chapter 58 Book 6, Ch 01 00:29:40
Chapter 59 Book 6, Ch 02 00:26:01
Chapter 60 Book 6, Ch 03 00:13:34
Chapter 61 Book 6, Ch 04 00:16:02
Chapter 62 Book 6, Ch 05 00:16:06
Chapter 63 Book 6, Ch 06-07 00:17:41
Chapter 64 Book 6, Ch 08-10 00:22:59
Chapter 65 Book 7, Ch 01-02 00:12:18
Chapter 66 Book 7, Ch 03-04 00:18:13
Chapter 67 Book 7, Ch 05 00:18:10
Chapter 68 Book 7, Ch 06-07 00:24:36
Chapter 69 Book 7, Chapter 8 Part 1 00:19:00
You are There: The Battle of Thermopolae
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Summary: The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato’s best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by constructing an imaginary city ruled by philosopher-kings. The dialogue also discusses the nature of the philosopher, Plato’s Theory of Forms, the conflict between philosophy and poetry, and the immortality of the soul. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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