Mythology

Edith Hamilton

Mentor, 1969 - Fiction - 335 pages

Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture -- the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. This new Back Bay trade paperback edition of Mythology replaces the Meridian edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. In August 1998 a new mass market paperback edition of Mythology published by Warner Books will replace the Mentor/Dutton Signet mass market edition formerly available from the Penguin Group.

Contents

• FOREWORD V: 15
• The Lesser Gods of Earth: 40
• THE TWO GREAT GODS OF EARTH: 47

About the author

Edith Hamilton was born on August 12, 1867 in Dresden, Germany to American parents. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut until her father's business went bankrupt, at which point she and her sisters taught themselves. She received a master's degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1894. In 1895, she became the first woman to study at the University of Munich in Germany. At the age of 29, she became the headmistress of Bryn Mawr Preparatory School for Girls in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1896. She retired from education in 1922 and moved to New York City. She began a career writing scholarly articles on Greek drama and myths. Her books include The Greek Way, The Roman Way, The Prophets of Israel, Three Greek Plays, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, and The Golden Age of Greek Literature. In 1957, at the age of 90, she traveled to Greece for the first time, where the city of Athens made her an honorary citizen. She died on May 31, 1963.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mythology; Volume 2803 of Mentor book
• Author: Edith Hamilton
• Editor: Steele Savage
• Illustrated by: Steele Savage
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Mentor, 1969
• ISBN: 0451628039, 9780451628039
• Length: 335 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology