[R.A.R] Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes PDF Full

[R.A.R] Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes PDF Full
[R.A.R] Mythology:
Timeless Tales of Gods
and Heroes PDF Full
Description
'Edith Hamilton retells the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths with a sure taste and scholarship that help to
restore their quality as perennial and refreshing fables about human nature, including our own.'―The New
Yorker'No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece
and the grandeur that was Rome.' Filtering the golden essence from the mass of classical literature, she
proved how applicable to our daily lives are the humor and wisdom of more than 2,000 years ago.'―New
York Times Read more 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. Read more