![]() ![]() 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 a position of the 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. The ten full-color plates by Jim Tierney, specially commissioned for this 75th Anniversary edition, are the perfect complement to Hamilton's classic work.Įdith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born Augin Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. The book is organized into seven parts: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes Stories of Love and Adventure The Great Heroes Before the Trojan War The Heroes of the Trojan War The Great Families of Mythology The Less Important Myths and The Mythology of the Norseman, and includes genealogies. Vivid, decadent, and full of action, Hamilton's retellings of these timeless tales from the birth of the goddess Athena, who sprung fully formed from the head of her father Zeus, to the great adventures of Ulysses and the labors of Hercules - appeal to readers of all ages and reveal essential truths about the behavior of man. Expansive in its scope Mythology brings to life for the modern reader Greek, Roman and Norse myths and legends, as well as the gods, heroes, and mortals who inhabit them, and who have inspired human creativity from antiquity. Edith Hamilton's Mythology has been a perennial bestseller and has sold millions of copies throughout the world. Since its original publications by Little, Brown and Company in 1942. ![]()
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