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Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and author who was "recognized as the greatest woman Classicist". She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930. It was instantly successful, and is the earliest expression of her belief in "the calm lucidity of the Greek mind" and "that the great thinkers of Athens were unsurpassed in their mastery of truth and enlightenment".
In 1957, when the Book-of-the-Month Club selected The Greek Way (1930) as a featured book, it enhanced her efforts at directing the American mind towards Ancient Greece, despite it having been published twenty-seven years earlier. Moreover, by then, she already had published other books, among them The Roman Way (1932), Mythology (1942), and The Echo of Greece (1957); to date, at the high school and university levels, Mythology remains the premier introductory text about its subject. The New York Times has described her as the Classical Scholar who "brought into clear and brilliant focus the Golden Age of Greek life and thought ... with Homeric power and simplicity in her style of writing".
Teacher reading of Edith Hamilton's story of Perseus.
This book covers all of the basic Greek/Roman myths but little to no Norse Myths...
"The Greek Way" by Edith Hamilton, is a fantastic book about ancient Greece and its influence on all subsequent cultures. We cannot escape Greece, even if we have forgotten it.
Class of 1933, Edith Hamilton Sestok, attended Kingswood Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan USA in 1932, the first year it opened. Edith has dark hair/white dress in video. Edith and friends are having a picnic at Lake Kingswood. Her son, artist Bob Sestok attended Cranbrook Art School in 1970, affiliated with Kingswood and Cranbrook Art Museum, noted as "one" of the best contemporary museums in the world. Edith's Uncle Harry Scot was good friends with Mr. Booth, founder of Cranbrook.
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Edith Hamilton Running into an old psychiatrist friend, Sam takes a cold case crime to prove whether the doctor’s patient is as guilty as she feels she is. Sam is to extract a confession from her in what ever means he can. The mentally unstable Mrs Hamilton tells about the murder from her perspective. The murder was on an old Virginia plantation, but the family now lives in Sam’s stomping grounds near San Francisco. Sam finds Edith, and serves her with papers under the guise of being a lawyer. The melancholy girl plays the piano without any fear, but the bright weather stands as a stark contrast to the dark, and gloomy circumstance of Sam’s investigation. Sam smells a rat,, and is frustrated to the point of wanting to quit the job, and even leave his profession. This show aired 4/17/1949...
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