The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton
The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton
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The Roman Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

In The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, their loves and hates. In them we see reflected a picture of Roman life very different form that fixed in our minds through schoolroom days—and far livelier.Here, Hamilton makes vividly interesting the contrast between Roman and Greek culture. Moreover, it reveals how surprisingly similar was Roman civilization to that of modern America—in respects ranging from an interest in good roads and good plumbing, to the popular veneration of home and mother. Our heritage from Rome includes everything from moral laws to stock characters in the drama. Skillful, witty, subtle in understanding, this book shows us what the Romans were like, how they lived, what they thought and accomplished.

About Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist. Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens.

About Wanda McCaddon

Wanda McCaddon (a.k.a. Nadia May or Donada Peters) has narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, has earned numerous Earphones Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe

Edith Hamilton not only appreciates Latin literature for its use in the analysis of Roman history, but also the brilliance of their writings. By using Roman playwrights and poets, Hamilton traces the development of Rome, from its origin as something not-Greek, to the romantic and grandiose poems of......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Like the Greek Way, the Roman Way is a collection of interpretive essays on specific writers and their broader cultural context, this time, of course, relocated to Italy's capital. Hamilton of course brings her astonishing breadth of knowledge of the subject to this work, as well as the fascinating......more

Goodreads review by Eric

Read this book after reading the Greek Way. Understand the difference between the Greeks, who were truly exceptional in culture, and the Romans, who created an exceptional state. I like Hamilton’s refreshing woman’s perspective too. Her discussion about the Romans putting women on a pedestal is part......more

Goodreads review by Jonathon

I wanted to like this a lot more but it was just… odd? A lot of times it was just a series of quotes and brief explanations, or imagined scenes of these writers. Was drifting to two stars but the titular chapter and the stories of the post Augustus Rome were four stars in their own right.......more

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