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The Story of the Greeks

H. A. Guerber

The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber. 116 sections, 7 hr 35 min. Public domain recording (LibriVox).

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Length
7 hr 35 min
Sections
116
Language
English
Level
Elementary
Read by
Librivox volunteers
Source
LibriVox
Internet Archive
story_of_the_greeks_1407_librivox
Rights
Public domain — LibriVox recording of a public-domain text

Chapters

  1. 000 - Preface 3:13
  2. 001 - Early Inhabitants of Greece 4:04
  3. 002 - The Deluge of Ogyges 3:54
  4. 003 - The Founding of Many Important Cities 5:16
  5. 004 - Story of Deucalion 3:45
  6. 005 - Story of Daedalus and Icaraus 5:01
  7. 006 - The Adventures of Jason 3:40
  8. 007 - Theseus visits the Labrinyth 5:46
  9. 008 - The Terrible Prophecy 2:52
  10. 009 - The Sphinx's Riddle 4:56
  11. 010 - Blindness and Death of Oedipus 5:31
  12. 011 - The Brothers' Quarrel 4:29
  13. 012 - The Taking of Thebes 3:07
  14. 013 - The Childhood of Paris 6:27
  15. 014 - The Muster of the Troops 5:29
  16. 015 - The Sacrifice of Iphigenia 2:24
  17. 016 - The Wrath of Achilles 4:00
  18. 017 - The Death of Hector and Achilles 2:46
  19. 018 - The Burning of Troy 4:27
  20. 019 - Heroic Death of Codrus 4:16
  21. 020 - The Blind Poet 3:41
  22. 021 - The Rise of Sparta 3:43
  23. 022 - The Spartan Training 3:12
  24. 023 - The Brave Spartan Boy 4:14
  25. 024 - Public Tables in Sparta 3:15
  26. 025 - Laws of Lycurgus 2:45
  27. 026 - The Messenian War 4:13
  28. 027 - The Music of Tyrtaeus 4:53
  29. 028 - Aristomenes' Escape 3:19
  30. 029 - The Olympic Games 5:18
  31. 030 - Milo of Croton 3:07
  32. 031 - The Jealous Athlete 2:39
  33. 032 - The Girls' Games 2:57
  34. 033 - The Bloody Laws of Draco 6:06
  35. 034 - The Laws of Solon 4:50
  36. 035 - The First Plays 4:11
  37. 036 - The Tyrant Pisistratus 5:12
  38. 037 - The Tyrant's Insult 2:49
  39. 038 - Death of the Conspirators 3:30
  40. 039 - Hippias Driven out of Athens 4:07
  41. 040 - The Great King 2:55
  42. 041 - Hippias Visits Darius 4:16
  43. 042 - Destruction of the Persian Host 3:11
  44. 043 - The Advance of the Second Host 4:01
  45. 044 - The Battle of Marathon 4:32
  46. 045 - Miltiades' Disgrace 5:01
  47. 046 - Aristides the Just 3:17
  48. 047 - Two Noble Spartan Youths 4:16
  49. 048 - The Great Army 2:38
  50. 049 - Preparations for Defense 3:43
  51. 050 - Leonidas at Themorplyae 2:46
  52. 051 - Death of Leonidas 3:32
  53. 052 - The Burning of Athens 3:00
  54. 053 - The Battles of Salamis and Plataea 3:25
  55. 054 - The Rebuilding of Athens 2:50
  56. 055 - Death of Pausanias 4:04
  57. 056 - Cimon improves Athens 3:03
  58. 057 - The Earthquake 5:29
  59. 058 - The Age of Pericles 4:59
  60. 059 - The Teachings of Anaxagoras 4:24
  61. 060 - Beginning of the Peloponnesian War 4:13
  62. 061 - Death of Pericles 3:59
  63. 062 - The Philosopher of Socrates 3:29
  64. 063 - Socrates' Favorite Pupil 5:22
  65. 064 - Youth of Alcibiades 3:55
  66. 065 - Greek Colonies in Italy 4:25
  67. 066 - Alcibiades in Disgrace 4:03
  68. 067 - Death of Alcibiades 4:27
  69. 068 - The Overthrow of theThirty Tyrants 2:33
  70. 069 - Accusation of Socrates 4:06
  71. 070 - Death of Socrates 5:22
  72. 071 - The Defeat of Cyrus 3:47
  73. 072 - The Retreat of the Ten Thousand 4:19
  74. 073 - Agesilaus in Asia 2:13
  75. 074 - A Strange Interview 3:03
  76. 075 - The Peace of Antalcidas 3:17
  77. 076 - The Theban Friends 3:02
  78. 077 - Thebes Free Once More 3:47
  79. 078 - The Battle of Leuctra 2:59
  80. 079 - Death of Pelopidas 2:54
  81. 080 - The Battle of Mantinea 3:39
  82. 081 - The Tyrant of Syracuse 3:42
  83. 082 - Story of Damon and Pythias 5:27
  84. 083 - The Sword of Damocles 3:48
  85. 084 - Dion and Dionysius 4:15
  86. 085 - Civil War in Syracuse 2:56
  87. 086 - Death of Dion 3:23
  88. 087 - Philip of Macedon 4:55
  89. 088 - Philip Begins His Conquests 3:56
  90. 089 - The Orator Demosthenes 4:20
  91. 090 - Philip Masters Greece 4:49
  92. 091 - Birth of Alexander 4:07
  93. 092 - The Steed Bucephalus 3:51
  94. 093 - Alexander as King 4:22
  95. 094 - Alexander and Diogenes 4:17
  96. 095 - Alexander's Brilliant Beginning 4:32
  97. 096 - The Gordian Knot 3:58
  98. 097 - Alexander's Royal Captives 3:14
  99. 098 - Alexander at Jerusalem 3:45
  100. 099 - The African Desert 4:32
  101. 100 - Death of Darius 4:22
  102. 101 - Death of Porus 4:02
  103. 102 - The Return to Babylon 2:58
  104. 103 - Death of Alexander the Great 3:52
  105. 104 - The Division of the Realm 3:37
  106. 105 - Death of Demosthenes 4:04
  107. 106 - The Last of the Athenians 3:49
  108. 107 - The Colossus of Rhodes 5:03
  109. 108 - The Battle of Ipsus 2:28
  110. 109 - Demetrius and the Athenians 2:28
  111. 110 - The Achaean League 3:59
  112. 111 - Division in Sparta 5:01
  113. 112 - Death of Agis 2:58
  114. 113 - The War of the Two Leagues 3:38
  115. 114 - The Last of the Greeks 2:46
  116. 115 - Greece a Roman Province 3:48