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The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton is a celebrated exploration of ancient Greek culture, art, literature, and philosophy, written with clarity, passion, and timeless insight. First published in 1930, the book introduces readers to the essence of classical Greek civilization and its profound influence on the modern Western world.
Hamilton, a respected classicist, takes readers on a journey through the lives and works of iconic figures such as Aeschylus,...
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"Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention apart from the great men it produced," writes Hamilton, "for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things, but a blueprint of what may happen...
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In The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, their loves and hates. In them we see reflected a picture of Roman life very different form that fixed in our minds through schoolroom days-and far livelier. Here, Hamilton makes vividly interesting the contrast between Roman and Greek culture. Moreover,...
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El gran clásico que ha cautivado y deleitado a millones de lectores alrededor del mundo con sus relatos atemporales de los dioses y los héroes que nos han inspirado desde el origen de los tiempos.
Publicada por primera vez en 1942, la Mitología de Edith Hamilton se convirtió rápidamente en una obra de referencia sobre los grandes relatos mitológicos. Conocido por sus continuas reediciones en inglés y en sus múltiples traducciones, este compendio...
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Monsters, mortals, gods, and warriors: For over sixty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and...