Edith Hamilton (1) (1867–1963)
Auteur de La mythologie
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Edith Hamilton, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Edith Hamilton
Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound / Agamemnon / The Trojan Women (1937) — Traducteur — 134 exemplaires
The Prophets of Israel 7 exemplaires
The Age of Heroes 5 exemplaires
The Greek way/The great age of Greek literature 1 exemplaire
"Cupid and Psyche" taken from Mythology 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) (1961) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1,201 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hamilton, Edith
- Date de naissance
- 1867-07-12
- Date de décès
- 1963-05-31
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cove Cemetery, Hadlyme, Connecticut, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Dresden, Saxony
- Lieu du décès
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New York, New York, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA - Études
- Bryn Mawr College (BA|MA|1894)
University of Leipzig
University of Munich - Professions
- teacher
classicist
author
scholar
historian - Relations
- Reid, Doris Fielding (companion)
Hamilton, Alice (sister)
Hamilton, Margaret (sister)
Hamilton, Norah (sister)
Hamilton, Arthur (brother)
Reid, Dorian F. (son) - Organisations
- Bryn Mawr School for Girls
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Courte biographie
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 18,972
- Popularité
- #1,153
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 126
- ISBN
- 150
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 1