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. If you can get a hold of the 75th Anniversary edition, do so The beautiful hardback cover, Illustrations by Jim Tierney, multiple double-page family trees and gold chapter header and border detailing make it an obvious choice. The book was a critical and popular success. I really enjoy reading Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s ‘Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes’ has been no exception. 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. Removed Tts_version 5.Edith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born Augin Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. O元4630015W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.71 Pages 342 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230606162745 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 440 Scandate 20230603195203 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog bwb Scribe3_search_id O8-CQN-705 Source Urn:lcp:bwb_O8-CQN-705:lcpdf:6f86e183-0f24-48f0-9f80-d70ec9f0b1a4 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bwb_O8-CQN-705 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2ng55mrw3k Invoice 1652 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9939 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200675 Openlibrary_edition This exciting new deluxe, large-format hardcover edition, published in celebration of the book's. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:46:28 Autocrop_version 0.0.15_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40975116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier For 75 years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology-from Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom.
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