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The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

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Various,William Jennings Bryan

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This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or traditional) orations and speeches. - Summary by Carolin (7 hr 8 min)

Chapters

5:40

Read by Jason in Panama

24:15

Read by SK

Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys by Homer

9:59

Read by Kathrine Engan

Pericles - I. - In Favor of the Peloponnesian War

13:08

Read by THBosc

Pericles - II. - On Those Who Died in the War

17:29

Read by THBosc

Pericles - III. - In Defense of Himself

10:42

Read by THBosc

Cleon - On the Punishment of the Mytileneans

11:27

Read by THBosc

Alcibiades - I. - In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily

11:05

Read by Andrew Philologus

Alcibiades - II. - To the Spartans

3:15

Read by Jordan Watts

Nicias - Against the Sicilian Expedition

8:12

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Hermocrates - On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders

10:34

Read by Linda Johnson

Lysias - Against Eratosthenes

5:29

Read by Brian Murphy

Socrates - I. - In His Own Defense

18:09

Read by Brad Schliesser

Socrates - II. - On Being Declared Guilty

7:34

Read by Brad Schliesser

Socrates - III. - On Being Condemned to Death

10:49

Read by Brad Schliesser

Isocrates - On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia

17:10

Read by Gail Nelson

Isaeus - In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares

13:20

Read by THBosc

Demosthenes - I. - The Second Oration Against Philip

17:30

Read by Ann Boulais

Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 1

19:20

Read by Jim Locke

Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 2

17:36

Read by Jim Locke

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 1

30:36

Read by Andrew Philologus

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 2

22:50

Read by Jim Locke

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 3

26:18

Read by Jim Locke

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 1

26:17

Read by THBosc

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 2

28:44

Read by THBosc

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 3

22:35

Read by THBosc

Dinarchus - Against Demosthenes

18:27

Read by DJRickyV

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nice again thankyou for supplying such a great book and reader .

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