![]() ![]() ![]() Foster's detailed pen and ink drawings are fresh and appealing, and her illustrated timelines give a clear sense of chronology, enriching the engaging text. Library descriptions No library descriptions found. Foster will then take her readers all over the world to learn what was happening at this same time in China, Persia, India and so on. In Rome in 62 A.D., seventeen-year-old Hylas must find a way to save himself, his mother, and the other household slaves from imprisonment and imminent death when their master, a prominent senator, is found murdered. ![]() Within this timeframe readers will learn not only the stories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and Marc Antony, but also the historian Livy and how Virgil came to write the Aeneid. to the time of Augustus Caesar in 44 B.C. In Augustus Caesar's World, Foster traces the seven major civilizations Rome, Greece, Israel, Egypt, China, India, and Persia from 4500 B.C. She has a keen intuition for stories that will especially delight and amuse her youthful audience. In her unique approach, Foster weaves a story of the world around her central character rather than focusing exclusively on geo-political events, as most textbooks do she includes stories of scientific discovery and invention, music, literature, art, and religion. ![]() This frustration led to Foster's first book, George Washington's World (1941). Considered the innovator of "horizontal history," Genevieve Foster became frustrated when her two school-aged children complained about the boring presentation of history in their school texts. ![]()
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