![]() The literature of these ancient poets and story tellers helped to position mankind's importance in the universe, as astronomy, science, medicine, and interaction took place on frontiers previously left to the gods. No longer was this exclusively the privilege of royalty, priests, and wizards or sorceresses. Reason took the place of terror, mystery, and magic and although at times life still had brutality and savagery, the ancient people heard and read the traditions passed down as mythology shared conquest and intellect, artistic ability, and political order. In this freedom, what today we consider strange, to those being introduced to Roman and Greek mythology as is found in this book, their world was full of beauty and awe. Ancient Greeks and Romans of this time period enjoyed the imagination of the mythology prevalent in this new era of thought, allowing themselves to revel in the possibilities for personification and animation that began to occur anywhere, anytime, about anything. Ignorance became less common than education, instead of the other way around. Mythology of this time period affected how ancient civilizations interacted with nature and each other, based upon the trend away from how past beliefs held little distinction between myth and reality. ![]() Interspersed are illustrations, with Greek and Roman emphasis, which add to the author's effort to familiarize any reader with the way men and women felt, believed, and lived according to what influence the ancient stories gave to conduct, architecture, ambitions, and how those stories fueled the competitive spirit. In this book are the gods of myth, the Titans, the Olympians, gods of water, underworld, and the earth with heroes, gods of flora and fauna, lovers, gods of adventure, tales such as the Trojan War, families of the gods, gods of royalty and others less fortunate, as well as including Norse mythology. Her goal was to leave distinctions intact among ancient authors such as Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Ovid and others so that the classic myths retain immortality without seeking to flavor the recounting by her own style or attempt to entertain the less initiated reader. Edith Hamilton died on in Washington, D.C.Įdith Hamilton observes the difficulty of writing Shakespeare's "King Lear" on the level of "Cinderella," as well as reversing that same endeavor. 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. ![]() Edith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born Augin Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ![]()
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