The author has understood the very essence of Greek mythology. Such a beauty deserves to be unscathed.Įven more impressive however is its content. My copy arrived in excellent condition and I surely understand those that protest for damaged book delivery. It is a joy to hold in your hands and read it. The book has thick hard cover, with thick quality pages, beautiful strong colour plates and stitch binding. One could buy it as a future museum piece because very soon books with these production standards could be rarities. Indeed this book from the 40s gives a superb view of Greek Mythology (includes also Roman and Norse). One has to go back in time to find genuine depictions of classical Europe. Edith Hamilton died on in Washington, D.C. At home, Hamilton was a recipient of many honorary degrees and awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hamilton traveled to Greece in 1957 to be made an honorary citizen of Athens and to see a performance in front of the Acropolis of one of her translations of Greek plays. These were followed by The Prophets of Israel (1936), Witness to the Truth: Christ and His Interpreters (1949), Three Greek Plays, translations of Aeschylus and Euripides (1937), Mythology (1942), The Great Age of Greek Literature (1943), Spokesmen for God (1949) and Echo of Greece (1957). In 1932, she published The Roman Way, which was also very successful. The book was a critical and popular success. In 1930, when she was sixty-three years old, she published The Greek Way, in which she presented parallels between life in ancient Greece and in modern times. After her retirement in 1922, she started writing and publishing scholarly articles on Greek drama. For the next twenty-six years, she directed the education of about four hundred girls per year. Hamilton returned to the United States in 1896 and accepted the position of headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland. The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich. Hamilton's education continued at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1894 with an M.A. Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French, and German to her curriculum. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Įdith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born Augin Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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