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Perilous Seat

Name: Perilous Seat
Author: Caroline Dale Snedeker

Caroline Dale Snedeker

Read by Virginia Neville, Christine Rottger, Lynne T, madhushree, Little Beetle, SKVeld, Kerry Adams, czandra and veera2022 · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Book I At the Pyhian Festival: Dryas Wins the Prize (15:23)
Parental Justice (11:21)
Book II A Childhood in Delphi: Theria, Seven Years Old (12:24)
Eleutheria Looks out of a Window (15:08)
The Traditions of the House (18:53)
The Guests (10:41)
What Gifts the Guests Brought (11:07)
Dryas Takes a Robber (8:49)
Laurel From Tempè (13:15)
A Boy Called Sophocles (15:25)
Why Not Be the Pythia? (14:56)
Book III Within the Oracle: “The Place of Golden Tripods” (25:07)
In Pleistos Woods (7:51)
The Poor Slave (13:09)
The Shattered Cup (7:28)
Gathering the Threads (8:49)
The Youth under the Window (8:46)
Gathering more Threads (9:23)
The Song Re-sung (18:09)
Love in the Lane (20:19)
A Procession of Sacrifice (7:22)
In the Pythia House (5:41)
The Child Priestess (8:21)
The High, Perilous Seat (12:13)
Bitter Consequences (10:01)
“Pray to the Winds” (7:47)
The Messengers (14:18)
Outcast on Parnassos (10:26)
Eëtíon Pursues (9:33)
Shepherd Wisdom (13:40)
Nikander’s Nearest of Kin (11:18)
Terrible News from Thermopylæ (13:23)
At Eëtíon’s Call (8:30)
Eëtíon and Nikander (3:54)
Theria Tells Her Vision (7:33)
Refuge in the Precinct (7:49)
Book IV “The God Will Care for His Own”: The Persian Comes (14:47)
Thankfulness (9:13)
Nikander Pleads for His Daughter (9:40)
Again Home (6:07)
A Sculptor’s Respectability (10:37)
The Unwilling Colonist (20:34)
The Bird in the Cage (20:07)
The Metic (6:36)
The Marriage (8:03)
The Door of Escape (9:53)
Alien Meadows (12:33)
Town Makers (12:06)