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Classicist and author · Mythology (1942)
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Edith Hamilton was born 12 August 1867 at Dresden, Germany, to American parents, Montgomery and Gertrude (Pond) Hamilton, and was brought to Fort Wayne at six weeks old, to the town her grandfather Allen Hamilton had settled in the early 1820s. She grew up on the family's Fort Wayne estate, taught Latin from the age of seven by her father, along with French, German, and Greek. After Miss Porter's School in Connecticut she took her bachelor's and master's degrees at Bryn Mawr College in 1894 and studied at Leipzig and Munich — the first woman admitted to lectures at Munich. From 1896 to 1922 she was headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Only then, retired at fifty-five, did she begin the career that made her famous: The Greek Way (1930), The Roman Way (1932), The Prophets of Israel (1936), and Mythology (1942), which remains the standard English introduction to the Greek and Roman myths, followed by The Echo of Greece (1957) and the co-edited Collected Dialogues of Plato (1961). She died in Washington, D.C., on 31 May 1963, aged ninety-five.
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Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Encyclopedia.com, "Edith Hamilton"; Wikipedia, "Edith Hamilton."