Edith Hamilton (1) (1867–1963)
Autor de La mitología : Grecia, Roma y Norte de Europa
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Obras de Edith Hamilton
The Prophets of Israel 7 copias
The Age of Heroes 5 copias
Obras relacionadas
The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) (1961) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 1,201 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Hamilton, Edith
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1867-07-12
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1963-05-31
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cove Cemetery, Hadlyme, Connecticut, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Dresden, Saxony
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New York, New York, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA - Educación
- Bryn Mawr College (BA|MA|1894)
University of Leipzig
University of Munich - Ocupaciones
- teacher
classicist
author
scholar
historian - Relaciones
- Reid, Doris Fielding (companion)
Hamilton, Alice (sister)
Hamilton, Margaret (sister)
Hamilton, Norah (sister)
Hamilton, Arthur (brother)
Reid, Dorian F. (son) - Organizaciones
- Bryn Mawr School for Girls
- Premios y honores
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (1955)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1957)
National Achievement Award (1951)
Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction (1957) - Biografía breve
- Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Saxony (present-day Germany) to American parents. She grew up on an estate in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the eldest of five children in an intellectual family. Her father taught her Latin at the age of seven and Greek at eight, and she became an avid reader of Greek and Roman literature. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a master's degree in classics in 1894, and with her sister Alice, spent a year at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. In 1896, they returned to the USA, and Edith began her career as an educator. She was named headmistress of the new Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland. She remained in that position for 26 years. In 1922, she retired to devote herself to her classical studies and writing. This began her second career as author, the one for which she is best known today. Miss Hamilton was 62 years old when her first book, The Greek Way, was published in 1930. It was an immediate success, and was followed by further books such as The Roman Way (1932), Mythology (1942), The Great Age of Greek Literature (1943), and The Echo of Greece (1957). These writings made Miss Hamilton one of the most renowned classicists of her era. Critics acclaimed her works for their lively and engaging interpretations of ancient cultures, and the power of her writing. She was described as the classical scholar who brought the Golden Age of Greek life and thought into clear and brilliant focus.
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By EDITH HAMILTON
"It is only in religion that the meaning of life
can be found. There is nothing of which I am
more convinced than that religion is the most
individual matter there is and that everyone
has got to approach it in his own way" writes
Edith Hamilton.
In this book a gifted writer offers her own
approach in the hope that her way will have
meaning for others for whom the figure of
Christ has been obscured by ceremonies, rit-
uals, creeds, and dogmas.
To rediscover Christas he is given in the Gospels is, for her, the overwhelming need. She believes we must brush aside the statements and explanations which have, through the ages, hidden Christ more and more, and try to see hin for our-
selves. We must strive to understand why he
remains an unequalled force and inspiration,
although much that he taught was, and still
is, antagonistic to everyone.
What was his "truth" that the world can never forget him? In chapters on the Gospels, on St. Paul and on Faith and the Church, Miss Hamilton
seeks the answer to this question. She includes
a chapter on Socrates, because, as she writes:
"In the many years I have read the Gospels
and Plato it has been borne in upon me that
Socrates by temperament and in his basic
point of view was closer to Christ than any
one else.
I believe he is a help to understand-
ing Christ, a stepping-stone to an apprehen-
sion of that greatest of all figures."
Witness to the Truth is Miss Hamilton's
sixth and most important book. In all humil-
ity she has addressed her rare talents to the
subject of Christ and a personal religion. She
has written very simply on a great and pro-
found theme… (más)