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Mythology
Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
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Artikel-Nr:
9780316438520
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.10.2017
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Edith Hamilton
Gewicht:
1412 g
Format:
244x189x42 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Monsters, mortals, gods, and warriors: for over sixty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today.