Summary
Discover timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling book detailing classic Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends–featuring beautiful illustrations throughout.
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the myths that are the keystone of Western culture–the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.
Follow the drama of the Trojan War …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316223348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316223344 |
| Author: | Edith Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 147mm x 213mm |
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Edith Hamilton
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.
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