Books with author Edith Hamilton

One of the main functions of classical scholarship is to provide material by which our understanding of the Greeks may be strengthened and deepened. Among those who have attempted this task, Miss Edith Hamilton holds an honored place. Her book, The Greek Way, is the authentic utterance of one who lived so long in her imagination with the Greeks that she made them part of herself and formed an intimacy with them which few more-strictly professional scholars could attain. She wrote of them with the special understanding which comes from single-minded devotion and admiring affection. Her ideas were emphatically her own, and though she inevitable owed something to other scholars, everything that she said had her own imprint on it and rose from her unflagging concern for what the Greeks did and said and were. As the humanities learn more and more from scientific methods, so science begins to see that it cannot disregard the humanities or prosper without them. This is a lesson that the Greeks can still teach us. Miss Hamilton accomplished something in her account of how the Greeks did it for themselves. (from the introduction)

"It isn't so bad," says one of the men who are with you inside this ultimate room."Fifty years from now, the rest of us will all be old, or dead."And then you're waking again, and you think, Fifty years. you think. It's been fifty years.But another part of your mind says, No, it is only tomorrow morning.It isn't the dying itself. It's what comes before. The waiting, alone in a room without windows, trying to think. The opening of the door, the voices of the men who are going with you but not all the way, the walk down the corridor to the airlock room, the faces of the men, closed and impersonal. They do not enjoy this. Neither do they shrink from it. It's their job.

[Audiobook CD Library Edition in Vinyl case.] [Read by Wanda McCaddon] The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. ''What the Greeks discovered, how they brought a new world to birth out of the dark confusions of an old world that had crumbled away, is full of meaning for us today who have seen an old world swept away.'' In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton shares the fruits of her thorough study of Greek life, literature, philosophy, and art. She interprets their meaning and brings us a realization of the refuge and strength the past can offer us in the troubled present. Hamilton's book has taken its place among the few interpretative volumes that are permanently rooted and profoundly alive in our literature.