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World’s Story Volume IV- Greece and Rome — 94 episodes

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094 - Belisarius 505-564 AD by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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093 - Justinian in council painting p 548

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092 - Peace with the Goths or war 535 AD by Felix Dahn

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091 - How the empire was saved from the Huns 451 AD by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

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090 - Huns pillaging a French villa painting p 540

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089 - Rome pays ransom to Alaric the Goth 409 AD by Wilkie Collins

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088 - Rome Part IX The coming of the Barbarians Historical note

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087 - Constantine the Great born about 270 AD Emperor 306-337 by Eva March Tappan

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086 - The Roman roads by J R S Sterrett

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085 - Queen Zenobia and the Roman ambassadors 273 AD by William Ware

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084 - Marcus Aurelius the philosopher emperor 121-180 AD by Eva March Tappan

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083 - Rome Part VIII The grandeur that was Rome Historical note

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082 - The winning of the first missus about 391 AD by Georg Ebers

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081 - ''Ave Caesar'' ''Hail Caesar'' painting p 490

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080 - The country house of Pliny the Younger end of the first century AD described by himself

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079 - A Roman banquet by W A Becker adapted from Petronius

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078 - The Christian martyrs in the arena 64 AD by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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077 - The dying gladiator by Lord Byron

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076 - ''Pollice verso'' ''Thumbs down'' painting p 460

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075 - Rome Part VII How the Romans amused themselves Historical note

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074 - How to treat the Christians 112 AD a letter of Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan and the emper

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073 - A visit to Pompeii nineteenth century by Charles Dickens

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072 - The destruction of Pompeii 79 AD by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

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071 - The emperor Nero on the stage 67 AD by S Baring-Gould

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070 - In the time of Nero painting p 430

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069 - The fall of Sejanus 27 AD by S Baring-Gould

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068 - Rome Part VI Rome under the Caesars Historical note

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067 - Why Ovid was banished 10 AD by Maurice Baring

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066 - A Roman bore by Horace

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065 - The letter of a Roman university student 44 BC by Cicero the Younger

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064 - Augustus the shrewd young emperor emperor 31 BC-14 AD by Eva March Tappan

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063 - Rome Part V The Augustan Age Historical note

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062 - At the funeral of Caesar 44 BC by William Shakespeare

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061 - The assassination of Caesar 44 BC by James Anthony Froude

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060 - Caesar at the height of his power 48-44 BC by Plutarch

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059 - When Caesar crossed the Rubicon 49 BC by Plutarch

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058 - Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman senate painting p 368

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057 - Rome Part IV Julius Caesar Historical note

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056 - On the death of Lesbia's sparrow by Catullus

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055 - Spartacus to the gladiators 73 BC by Elijah Kellogg

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054 - Marius to the Roman people 106 BC by Sallust

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053 - How Archimedes defended Syracuse 212 BC by Livy

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052 - Hannibal crossing the Rhone painting p 336

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051 - How Hannibal made his way to Italy 218 BC by Livy

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050 - The Romans of the Early Republic and their ways by Eva March Tappan

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049 - Rome Part III Rome becomes mistress of the world Historical note

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048 - The geese that saved the Capitol 364 BC by Thomas Arnold

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047 - The fall of Veii 396 BC by Thomas Arnold

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046 - How Cincinnatus saved the consul 455 BC by Thomas Arnold

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045 - When Coriolanus spared Rome 490 BC by Thomas Arnold

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044 - Rome Part II Stories of the Italian wars Historical note

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043 - How the Plebeians won their rights by Eva March Tappan

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042 - Horatius 508 BC by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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041 - Brutus condemning his sons to death painting p 268

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040 - The contest between the Horatii and the Curiatii about 650 BC by Livy

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039 - How Rome was founded 753 BC by Jacob Abbott

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038 - The arrival of Aeneas in Italy by Virgil from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

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037 - Funeral games in honor of Anchises by Virgil from translation of Christopher Pearse Cranch

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036 - Rome Part I History and legend Historical note

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035 - The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron

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034 - Marco Bozzaris 1823 by Fitz-Greene Halleck

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033 - The sale of the philosophers second century AD by Lucian

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032 - Greece Part VI From the Roman conquest to the nineteenth century Historical note

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031 - The death of Alexander the Great painting p 204

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030 - In the studio of Apelles 4th century BC by Henry Greenough

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029 - Alexander the Great 356-323 BC by Plutarch

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028 - Danger from Macedonia 348 BC by Demosthenes

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027 - Greece Part V Macedonian supremacy Historical note

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026 - The death of Socrates 399 BC by Plato

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025 - When the ten thousand came to sea 400 BC by Xenophon

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024 - The siege of Plataea 427 BC by Thucydides

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023 - The bout between the poets 405 BC by Aristophanes

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022 - In the temple of Aphrodite by Ernst Eckstein

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021 - A religious procession in honor of Apollo painting p 128

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020 - Pericles and his age 465-429 BC by Eva March Tappan

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019 - Greece Part IV The Golden Age of Athens Historical note

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018 - How Themistocles brought about the battle of Salamis 480 BC by Plutarch

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017 - The Lemnian a story of Thermopylae 480 BC by John Buchan

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016 - The battle of Marathon 490 BC by E S Creasy

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015 - Greece Part III War with Persia Historical note

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014 - Ode on a Grecian urn by John Keats

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013 - Greek girls playing ball painting p 75

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012 - The chariot race after the eighth century BC by Sophocles

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011 - At the Olympian Games after the eighth century BC by Charles Diehl

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010 - Solon who made laws for the Athenians 639-559 BC by Eva March Tappan

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009 - How the Spartan boys were trained about the ninth century BC by Plutarch

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008 - Greece Part II Life in Early Greece Historical note

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007 - The meeting between Odysseus and his father by Homer

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006 - Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor by Homer

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005 - The deification of Homer painting p 22

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004 - The sacrifice of Iphigenia by Euripides

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003 - The story of Oedipus by Sophocles retold by Rev G W Cox

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002 - Greece Part I Stories from Greek literature Historical note

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001 - The last token painting frontispiece