The Greek Way

Edith Hamilton is my favourite writer when it comes to describing ancient Greek mythology. This is her first book where she tries to place the context of intellectual life in 5th C Athens from which so much influential poetry, theatre and philosophy will be born. It feels like you are walking down t......more

In the late Victorian, an eighteen-year-old Edith Hamilton graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Enraptured by the spirit of Classical Antiquity, she did what any academic would and traveled to the center of Greek and Roman studies, Germany, to continue her education. She was the first woman to attend c......more

It is the fashion of the times to demote Greece and Rome from their pedestals and insist on the homogenization of history and culture, to declare that no one society, set of laws and customs, or literature and poetry is better than any other. It offends delicate souls to be told that lightning may h......more

Hamilton wants people to engage with the examples of ancient Greece. Well, just this year I have read Plato's Republic, Xenophon's Anabasis and Cyropaedia, some ancient Greek tactics manuals and jokes, as well as listened to a number of discussions on Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, and the major tragedies o......more

Ovo (najveće?) ljubavno pismo antičkoj Grčkoj, a pre svega Atini klasičnog vremena, Idit Hamilton je objavila 1930. godine. Dopunjeno izdanje izašlo je dvanaest godina kasnije, za vreme Drugog svetskot rata: "Kada je sve zahvaćeno olujom, kada se zbiva zlo a preti još gore i kada je ono toliko nasrt......more