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Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Born 1867 · Died 1963

Quotes

  • “It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.”
    Saturday Evening Post 27 September 1958 ; also in Adventures of the Mind : From
  • “None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
    The Greek Way, Chapter 11
  • “There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty.”
    Three Greek Plays, introduction 1937
  • “They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.”
    The Greek Way, Chapter 1
  • “The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
    The Greek Way, Chapter 1

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Books by Edith Hamilton in order

Books by Edith Hamilton in the order they were published, from The Greek Way (1930) to Mitología (2021).

  1. 1The Greek WayThe Greek Way1930
  2. 2The Roman WayThe Roman Way1932
  3. 3The Roman Way to Western CivilizationThe Roman Way to Western Civilization1932
  4. 4The Prophets of IsraelThe Prophets of Israel1936
  5. 5Three Greek PlaysThree Greek Plays1937
  6. 6MythologyMythology1940
  7. 7The Great Age of Greek LiteratureThe Great Age of Greek Literature1942
  8. 8AgamemnonAgamemnon1948
  9. 9The Greek Way to Western CivilizationThe Greek Way to Western Civilization1948
  10. 10Witness to the TruthWitness to the Truth1948
  11. 11Spokesmen for GodSpokesmen for God1949
  12. 12The Echo of GreeceThe Echo of Greece1957
  13. 13The Roman Way to Western CivilisationThe Roman Way to Western Civilisation1957
  14. 14Witness to the Truth; Christ and His InterpretersWitness to the Truth; Christ and His Interpreters1957
  15. 15The Age of HeroesThe Age of Heroes1959
  16. 16The Ever-present PastThe Ever-present Past1964
  17. 17A Treasury of Edith HamiltonA Treasury of Edith Hamilton1969
  18. 18When Tyranny TrembledWhen Tyranny Trembled1974
  19. 19Greek Way/Roman WayGreek Way/Roman Way1986
  20. 20MitologíaMitología2021
  21. 21The Prophets of IsrealThe Prophets of Isreal

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