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	Edith Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist and educator before she became a writer on mythology.
		Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany and grew up with her parents in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
		Upon her return to the United States in 1896, Edith Hamilton became the headmistress of Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore, Maryland, to which she devoted all her energies until her retirement in 1922.
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	Edith Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Upon her return to the United States in 1896 Edith Hamilton became the headmistress of Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore Maryland to which she devoted all her until her retirement in 1922.
		Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" tell the "Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" of classical mythology and this volume, first written in 1942, is now a timeless classic itself.
		Edith Hamilton makes no pretenses that this is all there is to say on mythology, but she gives a reader a fine start.Hamilton puts them...
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	Edith Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born August 12, 1867 in Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French and German to her curriculum.
		Hamilton returned to the United States in 1896 and accepted a position of the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Hamilton traveled to Greece in 1957 to be made an honorary citizen of Athens and to see a performance in front of the Acropolis of one of her translations of Greek plays.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/hamilton-e.html (353 words)

	Edith Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist, and educator before she became awriter on mythology.
		Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany and grew up with her parents in FortWayne, Indiana.
		Edith Hamilton's correspondence and papers are at PrincetonUniversity.
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	CWHF-Alice Hamilton
		Alice Hamilton was born in New York City, the daughter of Montgomery Hamilton, a wholesale grocer, and Gertrude Pond.
		Hamilton continued her education at Johns Hopkins University and in Germany where she studied bacteriology and pathology at the universities of Leipzig and Munich.
		While at Hull House, Hamilton began her research into industrial diseases; in 1908 she was named to the Illinois Commission of Occupational Diseases and in 1911 to the United States Bureau of Labor as a special investigator.
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		EDITH, the silent stars are coldly gleaming, The night wind moans, the leafless trees are still.
		She began to sing at 15 in cafes and in the streets of Paris and was...
		Edith Cavell, Mount (KA-vuhl), (11,033 ft/3,363 m), W Alta., Canada, near B.C. border, in Rocky Mts., in Jasper Natl.
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	Alice Hamilton
		Hamilton's research into the dangers of industrial pollution was also used in the campaign against child labour.
		Hamilton was a member of the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, the National Consumer's League, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
		Even after Hamilton retired she continued to be active in politics and campaigned against McCarthyism, the execution of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, and the Vietnam War.
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		Edith Cresson, a European commissioner, appointed her dentist to an advisory position...
		Edith Alvarez, one of three civilian operators working at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, handles calls from American soldiers in outposts around the world.
		Edith Hamilton was a renowned educator and writer; Alice was the first woman professor at the Harvard Medical School and the founder of what is now the...
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	Reader's Companion to American History - -HAMILTON, EDITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born into a cultured Fort Wayne, Indiana, family, Hamilton started studying Latin at seven, memorized poetry and long passages from the Bible, and even as a girl was a "natural storyteller." (Physician and reformer Alice Hamilton was her sister.) After receiving her B.A. and M.A. from Bryn Mawr College (1894), she studied classics in Germany.
		Hamilton herself seemed as ageless as the Greeks she portrayed, no doubt a large part of her appeal as a public figure.
		Hamilton was essentially an inspirational writer whose enthusiasm for the past was contagious.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Hamilton's very popular 'Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes' is a very basic, very popular and very good text for the introduction of Greek and Roman mythology.
		Hamilton (raised, as I was astonished to discover, in Indiana, where I currently reside) studied at Bryn Mawr, and had a distinguished teacher career in addition to writing this useful text.
		Hamilton proceeds after this essay to describe the members of the pantheon, the major and minor gods and goddesses, the ideas of creation, the heroes (human, semi-divine and divine), stories of love and devotion, justice and injustice, and, of course, of warfare, victory, defeat, and courage.
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	Edith Hamilton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was a (A student of ancient Greek and Latin) classicist and (Someone who educates young people) educator before she became a writer on (Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person) mythology.
		She was also elected to the (Click link for more info and facts about American Academy of Arts and Letters) American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Edith Hamilton's correspondence and papers are at (A university in New Jersey) Princeton University.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edith_hamilton.htm (390 words)

	EDITH HAMILTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1894 - 1896 war sie mit ihrer Schwester Alice Hamilton, die später eine berühmte Hygiene-Ãrztin wurde, in Deutschland, wo sie an der Universität Leipzig und dann an der Universität München studierten und dort die ersten weiblichen Studenten waren.
		1896 wurde Edith Hamilton Direktorin der Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Edith Hamilton wird ein großer Einfluss auf Schriftsteller, Intellektuelle und Politiker nachgesagt.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/E/Edith_Hamilton (248 words)

	Hamilton, Edith
		From an early age Edith Hamilton was an eager student of Greek and Roman literature.
		Hamilton published a number of articles on aspects of Greek life and art and in 1930 published her first book, The Greek Way.
		Hamilton's translations of Aeschylus and Euripides in Three Greek Plays (1937) were among the first to replace florid Victorian diction with a more austere and accurate reflection of the Greek originals.
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	Hamilton
		Edith Hamilton did not claim to be a scholar; her commitment was to the unverifiable "truths of the spirit" she found in ancient writers.
		Hallett presents a detailed account of Edith Hamilton's life and influence (showing that two of her most passionate devotees were Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis and Robert F. Kennedy).
		Judith Hallett is also the author of the Edith Hamilton entry in Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
	www.brynmawr.edu /classics/hamilton.html (281 words)

	Edith Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her most famous books are her first, The Greek Way, and Mythology, which remains in print after six decades and still introduces most American schoolchildren to the literary versions of Greek myths.
		A mark of its status is that study guides to the book exist.
		Upon her return to the United States in 1896, Edith Hamilton became the headmistress of Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland, to which she devoted all her energies until her retirement in 1922.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Edith_Hamilton (433 words)

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		She was the eldest of five children (one of whom, Alice, became a social activist physician renowned as a leading specialist in industrial diseases and as a reformer who spent a decade working at Chicago' s Hull House with Jane Adaams to improve work safety standards nationwide).
		Edith received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Bryn Mawr (Pa.) College and spent 1895-96 in Germany, where she was the first woman to attend classes at the University of Munich.
		In 1922 Hamilton retired to devote herself to classical studies and to write her first book, "The Greek Way," a vivid and engaging survey of ancient Greek literature and culture.
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	Edith Hamilton Biography / Biography of Edith Hamilton Biography Biography
		Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) was an excellent teacher, scholar, and writer.
		Starting at the age of 63, Hamilton published a number of acclaimed books on Greek and Roman culture, was made an honorary citizen of Athens, and was awarded several honorary doctorates.
		Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany, on August 12, 1867, while her mother was visiting relatives.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY succeeds like no other book on 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.
		When Hamilton retells the love story of Cupid and Psyche or the tragedy of Agamemnon and his children, she does so with a full sense of what it meant when first told by Apuleius or Aeschylus.
		For Hamilton the writings of Homer, Hesiod and Pindar are more abbreviated in terms of providing details for the myths, but at least they take the tales seriously.
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	Hamilton, Edith -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In 1957, at the age of 90, she was made an honorary citizen of Athens, Greece, in recognition of her devotion to the ancient ideals of that city.
		Hamilton was born of American parents on Aug. 12, 1867, in Dresden, Saxony (now in Germany), but grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind. Her sister Alice, who…
		She was involved in designing costumes for hundreds of movies from the 1930s to the 1980s and was the first woman to head a design department at a major film studio.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9325637 (645 words)

	Encyclopedia: Edith Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system.
		American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art.
		Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edith-Hamilton (1124 words)

	Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
		Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute.
		The amount of time and work Edith Hamilton must have spent collecting these stories from various sources and putting them together is incomprehensible.
		Edith Hamilton makes sure to leave no detail untold in her accounts of the various lives and actions of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses.
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	Mythography \| Review of Edith Hamilton's Book Mythology
		Edith Hamilton approached mythology with the education of a classicist and the passion of a writer in love with her subject.
		Hamilton also shares her knowledge and insight about such fascinating mythological figures as Narcissus, Cupid and Psyche, Daedalus, and Daphne.
		In addition to these stories, one other valuable aspect of Mythology is the manner in which Hamilton has organized the tales of the various families of Greek myth.
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	Learn more about Edith Hamilton in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Learn more about Edith Hamilton in the online encyclopedia.
		Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist, mythologist, and writer whose most famous book is Mythology.
		She was born in Dresden, Germany and grew up with her parents in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/ed/edith_hamilton.html (323 words)

	Edith Hamilton at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(1867-1963) Edith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born August 12, 1867 in Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. of Arts and Letters.
		Edith Hamilton died on May 31, 1963 in...
		This is the result of a class project in which each group taught one chapter of the book to the rest of the class.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Mythology - Edith Hamilton - Mass Market Paperback
		Hamilton's renowned classic brings this legacy to life anew, with impeccably accurate and accessible retellings of eternally spellbinding tales.
		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.
		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 literarure, she proved how applicable to our daily lives are the humor and wisdom of more than 2,000 years ago.
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