she was finally able to attend lectures, because there was tension within the classics department between the Protestants and the Catholics." The Protestants supported Edith and she was allowed to attend classes, albeit under trying conditions. At first it was unclear whether Edith would be able to audit lectures at all. As it turned out, notes Sandra Singer, "Munich was hardly much of an improvement over Leipzig for Edith. When the sisters discovered that women were still not allowed to earn a doctoral degree at Leipzig, they decided to try their luck at the University of Munich. "Instead of the grandeur and beauty of Aeschylus and Sophocles, it seemed that the important thing was their use of the second aorist," she said. The lectures were thorough, but lost sight of the beauty of literature by focusing on obscure grammatical points. Edith, however, had come to Germany to study classics, and attended the lectures.Īccording to Alice, Edith was extremely disappointed with the lectures she attended. Alice had come to Germany to continue her studies in pathology. They were told that they could attend lectures but would not be able to participate in discussions. Edith had just graduated in classics from Bryn Mawr and was recipient of a European fellowship, while her sister Alice had recently completed her medical degree at the University of Michigan (1893)." When they arrived in Leipzig, they found a fair number of foreign women studying at the university. :45-46 LeipzigĪccording to education historian Sandra Singer, "The sisters' first destination was the University of Leipzig. Their adventures in Germany have been well preserved and publicized in Alice's autobiography. At the time, most North American women chose to register as auditors and Edith and Alice were among the first women to audit classes. In 1895 Edith and her sister Alice traveled to Germany to study humanities and classics at the University of Munich, recognized as a center in classical studies. Garrett European Fellowship, which allowed her to continue her studies in Germany. In the early 1880s, she attended Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies in Farmington, Connecticut, afterwards attending Bryn Mawr College, in Pennsylvania. Describing her Fort Wayne, Indiana, childhood, she said, "My father was well-to-do, but he wasn't interested in making money he was interested in making people use their minds" thus, her father guided her towards the Classics, and, when she was seven years old, he began teaching her Latin, then French, German, and Greek. Įdith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany, to Gertrude Pond Hamilton and Montgomery Hamilton, a scholarly man of leisure she also had three sisters, Alice, Margaret, and Norah. with Homeric power and simplicity in her style of writing". The New York Times has described her as the Classical Scholar who "brought into clear and brilliant focus the Golden Age of Greek life and thought. Moreover, by then, she already had published other books, among them The Roman Way (1932), Mythology (1942), and The Echo of Greece (1957) to date, at the high school and university levels, Mythology remains the premier introductory text about its subject. In 1957, when the Book-of-the-Month Club selected The Greek Way (1930) as a featured book, it enhanced her efforts at directing the American mind towards Ancient Greece, despite it having been published twenty-seven years earlier. It was instantly successful, and is the earliest expression of her belief in "the calm lucidity of the Greek mind" and "that the great thinkers of Athens were unsurpassed in their mastery of truth and enlightenment". She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930. Edith Hamilton (Aug– May 31, 1963) was a German-American educator and author who was "recognized as the greatest woman Classicist".
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