Edith Hamilton

Citations

• “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.”

• “None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

• “There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty.”

• “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 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.”

Les livres de Edith Hamilton dans l'ordre

Les livres de Edith Hamilton dans l'ordre de parution, de The Greek Way (1930) à 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. 6MythologieMythologie1940
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. 12By Edith HamiltonBy Edith Hamilton1957
13. 13The Echo of GreeceThe Echo of Greece1957
14. 14The Roman Way to Western CivilisationThe Roman Way to Western Civilisation1957
15. 15The Age of HeroesThe Age of Heroes1959
16. 16The Ever-present PastThe Ever-present Past1964
17. 17La MythologieLa Mythologie2006
18. 18MitologíaMitología2021
19. 19A Treasury of Edith HamiltonA Treasury of Edith Hamilton
20. 20The Prophets of IsrealThe Prophets of Isreal
21. 21When Tyranny TrembledWhen Tyranny Trembled