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Albert Augustus Trever
1874–1940
A classicist and historian at Lawrence College, he wrote clearly about the ancient world and helped generations of students see Greek history and ideas as part of everyday human life. His best-known work, A History of Greek Economic Thought, brought ancient economics into lively conversation with the modern world.
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A History of Greek Economic Thought
by Albert Augustus Trever
About the author
Born in 1874, Albert Augustus Trever was an American scholar who studied at Lawrence before returning to his alma mater to teach. Lawrence University remembers him as a professor who served there from 1905 until his death in 1940, and a residence hall on campus was later named in his honor.
Trever first taught Greek and later moved into history, reflecting the wide range of his interests in the ancient world. His scholarship included A History of Greek Economic Thought, originally a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, and he also wrote History of Ancient Civilization, a college text that reached a broad readership.
What makes his work still appealing is its practical spirit: he treated ancient Greece not as something remote and dusty, but as a living society with real questions about work, trade, politics, and human values. That blend of careful scholarship and readable explanation helped make his books useful both to students and to general readers.