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Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known [2] author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. [3] A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich.
Aug 8, 2024 · Edith Hamilton (born Aug. 12, 1867, Dresden, Saxony [now in Germany]—died May 31, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was an American educator and author who was a notable popularizer of classical literature.
Mar 3, 2024 · At the center of this debate was American Classicist Edith Hamilton (1867–1963). Hamilton is best known for her 1942 work, Mythology, which still serves as a useful introduction to Classical culture in high schools and universities throughout America.
Oct 12, 2023 · Houseman opens her biography with the twenty-one-year-old Edith Hamilton writing to her cousin Jessie about a performance of Sophocles’ “Electra” in 1889. Thirty-seven years later, in 1926,...
Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) was an excellent teacher, scholar, and writer. She was a gifted storyteller and had a phenomenal memory. Starting at the age of 63, Hamilton published a number of acclaimed books on Greek and Roman culture, was made an honorary citizen of Athens, and was awarded several honorary doctorates.
Oct 17, 2023 · A new publishing firm, W.W. Norton, decided to seize on it and signed up a recently retired Latin teacher and private school headmistress named Edith Hamilton to translate a trio of Greek...
Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich.
Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.
Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world.
Edith Hamilton. Mentor, 1969 - Fiction - 335 pages. Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the...
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