Perilous Seat
Caroline Dale Snedeker
48 chapters · 9 h 18 min · English
Read by Virginia Neville, Christine Rottger, Lynne T, madhushree, Little Beetle, SKVeld and others
Historical
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Theria is a young Delphian woman who becomes an oracle. Persian wars, a doomed love affair, and a strong woman make up this well-researched novel set in Ancient Greece. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 Book I At the Pyhian Festival: Dryas Wins the Prize 15 min 2 Parental Justice 11 min 3 Book II A Childhood in Delphi: Theria, Seven Years Old 12 min 4 Eleutheria Looks out of a Window 15 min 5 The Traditions of the House 19 min 6 The Guests 11 min 7 What Gifts the Guests Brought 11 min 8 Dryas Takes a Robber 9 min 9 Laurel From Tempè 13 min 10 A Boy Called Sophocles 15 min 11 Why Not Be the Pythia? 15 min 12 Book III Within the Oracle: "The Place of Golden Tripods" 25 min 13 In Pleistos Woods 8 min 14 The Poor Slave 13 min 15 The Shattered Cup 7 min 16 Gathering the Threads 9 min 17 The Youth under the Window 9 min 18 Gathering more Threads 9 min 19 The Song Re-sung 18 min 20 Love in the Lane 20 min 21 A Procession of Sacrifice 7 min 22 In the Pythia House 6 min 23 The Child Priestess 8 min 24 The High, Perilous Seat 12 min 25 Bitter Consequences 10 min 26 Pray to the Winds 8 min 27 The Messengers 14 min 28 Outcast on Parnassos 10 min 29 Eëtíon Pursues 10 min 30 Shepherd Wisdom 14 min 31 Nikander's Nearest of Kin 11 min 32 Terrible News from Thermopylæ 13 min 33 At Eëtíon's Call 8 min 34 Eëtíon and Nikander 4 min 35 Theria Tells Her Vision 8 min 36 Refuge in the Precinct 8 min 37 Book IV "The God Will Care for His Own": The Persian Comes 15 min 38 Thankfulness 9 min 39 Nikander Pleads for His Daughter 10 min 40 Again Home 6 min 41 A Sculptor's Respectability 11 min 42 The Unwilling Colonist 21 min 43 The Bird in the Cage 20 min 44 The Metic 7 min 45 The Marriage 8 min 46 The Door of Escape 10 min 47 Alien Meadows 13 min 48 Town Makers 12 min
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