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2501002644, 9791024218052
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Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at Leipzig University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Hamilton's second career as an author began after she retired from the Bryn Mawr School in 1922. She was sixty-two years old when her first book, The Greek Way, was published in 1930.

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L'ouvrage le plus clair et le plus complet sur la mythologie. Edith Hamilton est sans doute la seule auteure à avoir saisi toute l'importance qu'ont encore, à notre époque, les mythes et les légendes : ils sont le fondement même de notre culture et sources d'inspiration de nombreuses oeuvres. Remontant à leur origine, c'est chez les poètes Homère, Hésiode, Pindare ou encore Ovide que l'auteure retrouve la substance des grands thèmes mythologiques et nous les restitue, dans leur spontanéité, leur efficacité, sous forme de merveilleuses histoires : Orphée et Eurydice, Philémon et Baucis, Tantale et Niobé, les travaux d'Hercule, le défi d'Icare, la descente de Thésée aux Enfers. Comportant de magnifiques illustrations et un index très détaillé, cet ouvrage est devenu depuis sa première parution un best-seller mondial et une référence en mythologie.

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