Item description for W. H. D. Rouse * A GREEK BOY AT HOME * (1908) A Story written in Greek * PB

Modern Book, Reprint edition. Soft cover book.

Company/Creator:

W. H. D. Rouse, Litt.D. -- Head Master of the Perse Grammer School, Cambridge
-- Published by Blackie and Son Limited, London.

Title:

A Greek Boy at Home

Details about this publication:

Modern, undated reprint of the original 1908 edition by FBRE, LTD.

Firmly desirable. 150+ pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, flex covers, cloth bound, a sturdy book. Overall wonderful academic reprint book. It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you.

With B/W illustrations.

Clean and Unmarked Text. Very Good condition. Modern, undated replica.
Text is in English. Reproduced same as original issue.

-- Defects: None found. Only bookshop edge wear from being on the shelf.

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About Author:

William Henry Denham (W. H. D.) Rouse (30 May 1863 – 10 February 1950) was a pioneering British teacher who advocated the use of the "direct method" of teaching Latin and Greek.

Life: Rouse was born in Calcutta, India on 30 May 1863.[1] After his family returned home on leave to Britain Rouse was sent to Regent's Park College in London, where he studied as a lay student. In 1881 he won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge. He achieved a double first in the Classical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, where he also studied Sanskrit. He became a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1888.
After brief spells at Bedford School (1886–1888) and Cheltenham College (1890–1895), he became a master at Rugby School, where he encouraged Arthur Ransome to become a writer, against his parents' wishes. Ransome later wrote: "My greatest piece of good fortune in coming to Rugby was that I passed so low into the school ... that I came at once into the hands of a most remarkable man whom I might otherwise never have met. This was Dr W.H.D. Rouse."

Rouse was appointed headmaster of The Perse School, Cambridge, in 1902. He restored it to a sound financial footing following a crisis. He believed firmly in learning by doing as well as by seeing and hearing. Although the curriculum at the Perse was dominated by classics, he urged that science should be learned through experiment and observation. He was described by the archivist of The Perse School as the school's greatest headmaster: "Rouse was strongly independent to the point of eccentricity. He hated most machines, all bureaucracy and public exams." He retired from teaching in 1928.

In 1911 Rouse started a successful series of summer schools for teachers to encourage the use of the direct method of teaching Latin and Greek. The Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching (ARLT) was formed in 1913 as a result of these seminars.

Also in 1911 James Loeb chose W.H.D. Rouse, together with two other eminent classical scholars, T. E. Page and Edward Capps, to be founding editors of the Loeb Classical Library.

Rouse is known for his plain English prose translations of Homer's Odyssey (1937) and Iliad (1938). He is also recognized for his translations of some of Plato's dialogues, including The Republic, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
Further information: English translations of Homer § Rouse

Rouse died in Hayling Island on 10 February 1950. (From Wikipedia)

-- Defects: None found. Only bookshop edge wear from being on the shelf.

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Location: from inventory, 5034412-445 Rouse, greek boy

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