A new edition of the world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.
Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist. Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens.
"Edith Hamilton retells the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths with a
sure taste and scholarship that help to restore their quality as
perennial and refreshing fables about human nature, including our
own."--The New Yorker
"No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith
Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was
Rome.' Filtering the golden essence from the mass of classical
literature, she proved how applicable to our daily lives are the
humor and wisdom of more than 2,000 years ago."--New York Times
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