A Friend of Caesar (A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic Time, 50-47 B.C.) - Couverture souple

Davis, William Stearns

9781421967066: A Friend of Caesar (A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic Time, 50-47 B.C.)

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ISBN 10 : 1421967065 ISBN 13 : 9781421967066

Editeur : IndyPublish, 2006

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

It was the Roman month of September, seven hundred and four years after Romulus-so tradition ran-founded the little village by the Tiber which was to become "Mother of Nations," "Centre of the World," "Imperial Rome." To state the time according to modern standards it was July, fifty years before the beginning of the Christian Era. The fierce Italian sun was pouring down over the tilled fields and stretches of woodland and grazing country that made up the landscape, and the atmosphere was almost aglow with the heat. The dust lay thick on the pavement of the highway, and rose in dense, stifling clouds, as a mule, laden with farm produce and driven by a burly countryman, trudged reluctantly along. Stylistically, Davis never gave up on writing stories as a medium to convey his love for history as he saw it, and his intense conviction that the knowledge of history should matter to his contemporaries. He had a faculty for describing critical scenes, such as the expulsion of the tribunes in A Friend of Caesar. In his day, he was known for his “vivid, almost melodramatic prose style”. Twentieth Century Authors would credit him with having welded “fact and fiction without loss of narrative intensity or historical plausibility.”

Biographie de l'auteur

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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