Author : William Stearns Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781494323110
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Day in Old Athens by : William Stearns Davis
Download or read book A Day in Old Athens written by William Stearns Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Day in Old Athens A Picture of Athenian Life Greek life. Life in Classical Athens Brand New Student Edition By William Stearns Davis Professor of Ancient History in the University of Minnesota 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.