A Day in Old Athens: a Picture of Athenian Life (Bibliobazaar) - Softcover

9780554008585: A Day in Old Athens: a Picture of Athenian Life (Bibliobazaar)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0554008580 ISBN 13: 9780554008585

Publisher: BiblioLife, 2007

This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance.

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About the Author

William Stearns Davis (April 30, 1877 – February 15, 1930) was an American educator, historian, and author. He has been cited as one who “contributed to history as a scholarly discipline, . . . [but] was intrigued by the human side of history, which, at the time, was neglected by the discipline.” After first experimenting with short stories, he turned while still a college undergraduate to longer forms to relate, from an involved (fictional) character’s view, a number of critical turns of history. This faculty for humanizing, even dramatizing, history characterized Davis’ later academic and professional writings as well, making them particularly suitable for secondary and higher education during the first half of the twentieth century in a field which, according to one editor, had “lost the freshness and robustness . . . the congeniality” that should mark the study of history. Both Davis’ fiction and non-fiction are found in public and academic libraries today.

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