Edith Hamilton
Classicist, educator and author
Edith Hamilton was an American classicist and educator who wrote best-selling books on ancient Greece and Rome, including Mythology.
1 summary 27 min of listening
Born 1867 in Dresden, Germany Died 1963
About Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany, on August 12, 1867, to American parents, and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her father taught her Latin from the age of seven and later added Greek, French and German. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1894, and she and her sister Alice then became the first women to enroll at the universities of Munich and Leipzig. In 1896 she became headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, a post she held until she retired in 1922. Writing came next: her first book, The Greek Way, appeared in 1930, followed by The Roman Way in 1932 and Mythology in 1942. In 1957 Hamilton traveled to Athens, where she was made an honorary citizen. She died in Washington, D.C., on May 31, 1963.