![]() After her retirement in 1922, she started writing and publishing scholarly articles on Greek drama. For the next twenty-six years, she directed the education of about four hundred girls per year. Hamilton returned to the United States in 1896 and accepted a position of the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland. The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich. Hamilton's education continued at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1894 with an M.A. Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French and German to her curriculum. Praised throughout the world for its authority and lucidity, Mythology is Edith Hamilton's masterpiece-the standard by which all other books on mythology are measured.Įdith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born Augin Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. And we recognize reference points for countless works of art, literature, and cultural inquiry-from Freud's Oedipus complex to Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. We discover the origins of the names of the constellations. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We meet the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla. Troy was finally dead.The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Įdith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. Andromache held her son close to her but a herald came and announced that the boy must be thrown from a cliff. Hecuba, the wife of Priam and Andromache led them. Aphrodite led Helen to shelter and delivered her to Menelaus.Īt dawn, the city was still smoldering and the surviving women and children were rounded up. Aeneas led his father and son out of the burning city. The Greeks soon overwhelmed the resistance. "In the more distant parts of the town the Trojans were able to gather together here and there and then it was the Greeks who suffered." Part 4, Chapter 2, pg. ![]() At night, the men poured out of the horse and let the returning Greek army into the city. The people took this as an omen that they should bring it into the city. The priest who opposed the horse being brought into the city was killed on his altar by twin snakes. The Greek left behind convinced them that the horse was a peace offering. Some believed it was a trick, and others wanted to take it into the city. When the Greek fleet left, the Trojans came out to find the wooden horse. He filled it with armed men and left a single Greek behind to convince the Trojans to admit the horse. With the help of Athena, Odysseus devised the plan of the wooden horse. Finally, they realized that they would have to get the army within the city to be victorious. Odysseus and Diomedes accomplished this task one night. Then they learned that they would have to steal the image of Athena from a temple in the city before it would fall. They look for them and Diomedes and Odysseus come back with them. A prophet told them that they would need to use the arms of Hercules to defeat the great city. The Greeks were dismayed because they could still not defeat Troy. He went into a fit and tried to kill Menelaus and Agamemnon, but instead slayed a group of cattle and eventually killed himself (Athena made him insane). ![]() Ajax wanted his arms but Odysseus received them. ![]() Achilles only weak spot was near the ankles, where his mother had held him when she dipped him into the river Styx. A prince from Ethiopia reinforced the Trojans and the Greeks suffered until Achilles killed him. Mythology Part 4, Chapter 2: The Fall of TroyĪchilles was well aware that his death was near.
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