![]() One of my BBF GR buds Ana O really does love this. (And no, I am not suggesting anyone who says they love this is a liar. GR says I started this in August.of 2018.Īside from the fact that I am probably just too dumb and too uncultured to truly enjoy this thing to it's full capacity.I'm also not a pretentious asshole who is going to pretend I lurved it to pieces just to look smart. So this took me almost a full year to get through.Īnd no, I'm not actually joking (shocking, I know). 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 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. Urn:oclc:244248810 Scandate 20110928013924 Scanner 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. OL5262120W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.22 Pages 358 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0606162453 Containerid_2 X0001 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Warner Books ed. Monsters, mortals, gods, and warriorsĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:31:24 Boxid IA140123 Boxid_2 CH101501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y. An essential part of every home library, Mythology is the definitive volume for anyone who wants to know the key dramas, the primary characters, the triumphs, failures, fears, and hopes first narrated thousands of years ago-and still spellbinding to this day. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today. Introduction to classical mythology - Gods, the creation, and the earliest heroes - Stories of love and adventure - Great heroes before the Trojan War - Heroes of the Trojan War - Great families of mythology - Less important myths - Mythology of the Norsemen - Genealogical tablesįor over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1942
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