American Classicist The Life And Loves Of Edith Hamilton 1st Edition Victoria Houseman by Victoria Houseman 9780691236186, 9780691236193, 9780691220055, 0691236186, 0691236194, 0691220050 instant download after payment.

"Edith Hamilton (1867-1963), famed popularizer of the classics, whose books include Mythology & The Greek Way, introduced millions-literally millions-of general readers & young adults to the myths and culture of the Greco-Roman world. In the middle of the 20th century, she was arguably the most visible & widely read person on classics and mythology. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College & then a successful teacher & administrator at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Hamilton became well known to the public only when she was in her sixties. Her writings, written with a middle-American audience in mind, were intended to introduce general readers to a world of antiquity previously thought to be only the purview of those with knowledge of ancient languages. Her most successful book, Mythology, remains the most popular book of its kind &, like The Greek Way and The Roman Way, has never gone out of print. Houseman recounts Hamilton's life of ninety-five years, beginning with her childhood introduction to the study of Latin & Greek under her father's tutelage. Houseman explores the intellectual influences upon her, emphasizing in particular the nineteenth-century British thinkers whose work she encountered during her years as a student at Bryn Mawr, including Matthew Arnold & Edward Caird. It also tells the story of the two romantic relationships that shaped her life. The first was with Lucy Martin Donnelly, an English professor whose intellectual & aesthetic tastes made a profound impact upon Hamilton. The second, & more enduring, was with Doris Fielding Reid, with whom Hamilton lived for over forty years & with whom she raised a family composed of Reid's nephews & nieces. The biography also describes Hamilton's friendships with writers such as Gertrude Stein & Ezra Pound, as well as with Senator Ralph E. Flanders, who led the movement in the Senate to censure Joseph McCarthy & inspired Hamilton's depiction of Demosthenes