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"No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.'" ―New York Times

In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential poet of love; Horace, who chronicled a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics: Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. Hamilton concludes her work by contrasting the high-mindedness of Stoicism with the collapse of values as witnessed by the historian Tacitus and the satirist Juvenal.

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Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was made an honorary citizen of Athens because of her writings. She won the National Achievement Award and received honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Pennsylvania. The author of The Roman Way, Mythology, and other works, she was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0393354458
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (July 25, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780393354454
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393354454
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
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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. Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French, and German to her curriculum. Hamilton's education continued at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1894 with an M.A. degree. The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich.

Hamilton returned to the United States in 1896 and accepted the position of headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland. For the next twenty-six years, she directed the education of about four hundred girls per year. After her retirement in 1922, she started writing and publishing scholarly articles on Greek drama. In 1930, when she was sixty-three years old, she published The Greek Way, in which she presented parallels between life in ancient Greece and in modern times. The book was a critical and popular success. In 1932, she published The Roman Way, which was also very successful. These were followed by The Prophets of Israel (1936), Witness to the Truth: Christ and His Interpreters (1949), Three Greek Plays, translations of Aeschylus and Euripides (1937), Mythology (1942), The Great Age of Greek Literature (1943), Spokesmen for God (1949) and Echo of Greece (1957). 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. She was ninety years old at the time. At home, Hamilton was a recipient of many honorary degrees and awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Edith Hamilton died on May 31, 1963 in Washington, D.C.

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C. Ebeling
5.0 out of 5 stars The Roman "Say"
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2011
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I never studied Latin formally and my orientation to the Roman classics comes down to a 101 World Lit survey course in college that galloped through the antiquities faster than you can say "Virgil." It was time to fill in some gaps and I was pleased to see that Edith Hamilton, whose books were the wallpaper of school units on mythology in my baby boomer public schooling, had also written this book. I'd forgotten what a bright, unmannered voice she brings to the table, how lucidly she orders her information and how she can make it matter.

For Hamilton, the Romans moved into the center of western culture, usurping the Greeks' place, from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd AD. In The Roman Way she looks at the exemplary writers and forms who have had a lasting impact on western culture, and she never wavers from the view that understanding the Romans is key to making sense of modern public and private life. Her purpose is to palpate the Romans themselves--their values and social systems--believing the best way to understand them is through their writing. She helpfully compares and contrasts Roman romanticism with Greek classicism throughout the book. Obviously, in an introductory text like this, not every writer can have his due; those to whom she pays the most attention are Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Horace, Catallus, Juvenal, Virgil and Seneca. Through them, she reveals the Caesars, the Claudii, the Stoics, the art, the bloody warfare, the greed, the corruption, gender relations, class structure, the political intrigues and paradoxes, and the empire's demise.

Is this a complete concordance to the Roman canon? No. A comprehensive history? No. It's about getting a feel for who the Romans were and what mattered to them in their own words and why they continue to matter. It is a compelling overview made lively by Hamilton who does not look upon her topic as dead but rather quite vital.
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Stepping on Cracks
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous book
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2023
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This book and The Greek Way are both great. I wish Edith Hamilton had been around in the days of video so we'd have lectures and talks from this remarkable person.
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Pasko Varnica
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended to anyone interested in Roman literature
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2013
In order to support her position on the Roman mind, Ms. Hamilton offers a lucid explanation of realism, romanticism and the virtue of Stoicism. Thanks to her ability to express such topics in writing, she does a wonderful job in presenting the perspectives held in the ancient Rome.

The Roman Way is an exquisitely well-written book that I recommend to anyone interested in Roman literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read It Again
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2006
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I was first exposed to this classic in high school, but, of course, lacked the experience and maturity to appreciate it. I am glad I was exposed to it anyway because I was indeed impressed by it and remembered it in spite of my immaturity. I picked it up again and re-read it and was delighted. Hamilton is a voice from another time, a time not just of ancient Romans but a time when educated people in the modern West were really educated in what really matters and will always matter: the best that has been written and thought about the drama of human life throughout the ages. With that classic outlook, the reader cannot but help to recapture some of the balance, insight, sensitivity, and maturity that are the best fruits of a classical education. Now, more than ever, we need the classic restraint and equanimity that comes from the best of classical civilization. Reading Hamilton is a great tonic for a society increasingly fragmenting into more and more lunatic and decadent dead ends. The classics mature our personalities--and we need that in a time when egotism and undisciplined emotionalism are so rampant.
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Norcal J
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly perceptive
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021
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I can’t believe I never heard of her before, as this really gives you an intimate feel for the Romans and Greeks — the underpinning for our national cultural craziness... it’s all happened before.

Mike Duncan’s podcasts the History of Rome turned me on to this. I urge you to drink this in.
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Patrick Younge
5.0 out of 5 stars A Roman Synthesis
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2013
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Coupled with its sister volume 'The Greek Way' these overviews have been most enlightening.
They should be on the course for all who wish to understand the nature of the western minid and outlook.
These are seminal works should not be allowed to languish on the top shelves of Libraries
but should be the subject-matter of tutorials, or study groups!
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Brett Pruitt
3.0 out of 5 stars The Roman Way
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2007
Edith Hamilton's "The Roman Way" should not be considered if one is looking for a complete and definitive historical analysis of Roman civilization. I would consider it more of an informative pamphlet on certain aspects of the Romans. Hamilton uses only primary sources in her book. In this way she is able to avoid any misquided interpretations or exaggerations that some secondary sources contain. But what she gains in her use of primary sources exclusively, she loses in the more contemporary analyses of available secondary sources.

She attempts to depict Roman civilization by the great writers of the period, and she is partially successful in her attempt.

I, like other reviewers, particularly enjoyed her chapters on Cicero and Caesar as well as the title chapter. Her concluding chapter is an excellent summation of the Roman Empire. Unfortunately many of her chapters in the book are lacking in their support of her conclusion.

Hamilton does tend to get lost in the writings of the romantics, stoics and other authors and occasionally the reader is left with the notion that her book is a study of Roman literature. Bear with her and you'll see her view of Roman history come about eventually.

I would consider this book to be an excellent supplement to anyone studying the Romans. Especially for its analysis of the relationship between Caesar and Cicero and its analysis of Cicero himself. However, I would consider it an excellent supplement only, not a complete and thorough study of the whole of Roman history by itself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2016
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Jonathan Wilson
4.0 out of 5 stars More about their world of ideas, than daily life
Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2021
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Just be warned that this focuses more about the writers, and reference to the times they lived in, but a love for it's source material shines through.
I had hoped to learn about daily life and what it was like to live in the various kinds of Roman family. Some of it is in there.
A good companion to The History Of Rome podcast that reccomended it to me.
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