The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

02 - Greece Part I: Stories from Greek literature: Historical note

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

04 - The sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Euripides

05 - The deification of Homer, painting p. 22

06 - Princess Nausicaa and the shipwrecked sailor, by Homer

07 - The meeting between Odysseus and his father, by Homer

08 - Greece Part II: Life in Early Greece: Historical note

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

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

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

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

13 - Greek girls playing ball, painting p. 75

14 - Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats

15 - Greece Part III: War with Persia: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

22 - In the temple of Aphrodite, by Ernst Eckstein

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

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

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

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

27 - Greece Part V: Macedonian supremacy: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35 - The Isles of Greece, by Lord Byron

36 - Rome Part I: History and legend: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52 - Hannibal crossing the Rhone, painting p. 336

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

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

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

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

57 - Rome Part IV: Julius Caesar: Historical note

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

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

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

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

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

63 - Rome Part V: The Augustan Age: Historical note

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

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

66 - A Roman bore, by Horace

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

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

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

70 - In the time of Nero, painting p. 430

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

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

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

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

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

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

77 - The dying gladiator, by Lord Byron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

90 - Huns pillaging a French villa, painting p. 540

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

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

93 - Justinian in council, painting p. 548

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