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W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950)

Author of Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece

32+ Works 487 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Rouse WHD, Rouse W. H. D., W. H. D. Rouse, ed. W.H.D. Rouse, editor W.H.D. Rouse, trans. W.H.D. Rouse, W. H. D. Rouse trns., William Henry D. Rouse, Translator W. H. D. Rouse, Translator W. H. D. Rouse, W.h.d. Translated By Rouse, W.H.D. Rouse (translated by), Translated By W. H. D. Rouse

Works by W. H. D. Rouse

Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (1957) 413 copies

Rouse's Greek Boy: A Reader (in Greek) (2010) 15 copies

The Giant Crab And Other Tales from Old India (1973) 8 copies

Greek Votive Offerings: An Essay In the History of Greek Religion (1902) 6 copies

Demonstrations in Latin Elegiac Verse (2015) 5 copies

A Greek Boy at Home: a story written in Greek [including: Vocabulary to a Greek boy at home / by W.H.D. Rouse.] (1909) 4 copies

A First Greek Course (1960) 3 copies

Chanties in Greek and Latin written for ancient tradtional airs (1930) 3 copies

Homer (1978) 3 copies

Demonstrations in Greek lambic Verse (2018) 2 copies

The Direct Method Applied to Latin A Handbook for Teachers (1900) 2 copies

Tha Arabian Nights 2 copies

Stories of the old Greeks 2 copies

The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius (1940) 1 copy

LUCRETIUS 1 copy

Exercises in the Syntax and Idioms of Attic Greek (1900) 1 copy

The Story Of Odysseus: shortened from Homer's Odyssey 1 copy

Horace: Odes IIII 1 copy

St. Augustine's Confessions: With an English Translation; Volume 2 (2022) 1 copy

St. Augustine's Confessions: With an English Translation; Volume 1 (2022) 1 copy

Jinacarita 1 copy

A Greek boy at home, a story written in Greek with a vocabulary 1909 (2016) 1 copy

St. Augustine's Confessions : with an English translation: 2 1 copy

Jinacarita. Edited by W.H.D. Rouse (Pali Edition) (2011) 1 copy

gods, heros, and Men of Ancient Greece: Mythology's Great Tales of Valor and Romance (1963) 1 copy

Homer (The Odyssey) 1937 1 copy

Great Dialogue of Plato 1 copy

In Hiding (1973) 1 copy

Petronius Seneca Apocolocyntosis (1951) 1 copy

The adventures of Ulysses 1 copy

A Greek reader (2015) 1 copy

The Retreat to Corunna (2009) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Odyssey (0750) — Translator, some editions — 52,982 copies

The Republic (0380) — Translator, some editions — 21,904 copies

The Symposium (0360) — Translator, some editions — 6,505 copies

On the Nature of Things (0054) — Translator, some editions — 5,259 copies

Great Dialogues of Plato (1956) — Translator, some editions — 2,429 copies

The Anabasis [in translation] (0370) — Translator, some editions — 2,366 copies

Phaedo (0400) — Translator, some editions — 1,644 copies

Apology (0399) — Translator, some editions — 1,422 copies

Meno (0380) — Translator, some editions — 962 copies

The Satyricon / The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius (1913) — Translator, some editions — 913 copies

Crito (0360) — some editions — 426 copies

Loeb Classical Library : Lucretius : On the nature of things : Books 1-6 (1924) — Translator, some editions — 416 copies

Ion (0380) — Translator, some editions — 190 copies

Nonnos: Dionysiaca, Volume I, Books 1-15 (Loeb Classical Library No. 344) (1940) — some editions — 90 copies

Nonnos: Dionysiaca, Volume III, Books 36-48 (1940) — some editions — 86 copies

Nonnos: Dionysiaca, Volume II, Books 16-35 (1940) — some editions — 73 copies

5 Plays: Bacchae / Heracles / Children of Heracles / Phoenician Women / Suppliant Women (1912) — Editor, some editions — 47 copies

Shakespeare's Ovid (1961) — Editor, some editions — 18 copies

Dionysiaca (0400) — Translator, some editions — 15 copies

The Talking Thrush, and other tales from India (2010) — Adapter, some editions — 3 copies

Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools — Editor — 1 copy

Pylos and Sphakteria, from Thucydides, Book iv., ed. by W. H. D. Rouse — Editor — 1 copy

Nonnos: Dionysiaca [3 vols] [Loeb #'s 344, 354, 356] — Translator, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Rouse, William Henry Denham
Birthdate: 1863-05-30
Date of death: 1950-02-10
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Calcutta, India
Place of death: Hayling Island, England, UK
Education: University of Cambridge (Classical Tripos)
Occupations: head teacher
Relationships: Leavis, F. R. (student)
Ransome, Arthur (pupil)
Organizations: Rugby School
Perse School, Cambridge
Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching
Folklore Society
Awards and honors: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

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Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece. Mythology's… by W.H.D. Rouse

12/1/22

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Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece: Mythology's… by W. H. D. Rouse

Chatty retelling of Greek myths most suitable for young readers or for reading aloud.

½

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Works: 32
Also by: 23
Members: 487
Popularity: #50,715
Rating: 4.0

Reviews: 3
ISBNs: 38
Languages: 3

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