Frases de Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton fue una escritora y helenista estadounidense.[1]​

Edith Hamilton nació en Alemania de padres estadounidenses, pero al poco la familia se trasladó a vivir a Fort Wayne. Realizó estudios secundarios de lenguas clásicas, tras los cuales se licenció en el Bryn Mawr College en 1894. También estudió en la Universidad de Múnich, donde ella y su hermana Alice fueron las primeras mujeres matriculadas, y en la de Leipzig .[1]​[2]​

Organizó la Bryn Mawr School de Baltimore, que dirigió de 1896 a 1922.[2]​

Al retirarse de la enseñanza en 1922, se especializó en el estudio de la cultura de la Grecia clásica, especialmente en su filosofía y mitología.[2]​ Por sus estudios recibió diversos premios, como el National Achievement y el Constance Lindsay Skinner . En 1957 el rey Pablo le concedió la cruz de oro de la Orden de la Gracia, la más alta recompensa de Grecia.[1]​

En 1949 la Universidad de Rochester le concedió el doctorado en Literatura. Era miembro de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras.[1]​ En 1957 fue nombrada ciudadana honoraria de Atenas.[2]​

Entre sus obras se encuentran The Greek Way , The Roman Way , The Prophets of Israel , Three Greek Plays , Mythology , Introduction to Plutarch y Echoes of Greece .[1]​[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 12. agosto 1867 – 31. mayo 1963
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Edith Hamilton: Frases en inglés

“If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.”

Edith Hamilton

The Echo of Greece (1957)
Contexto: What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a co-operative business, possessed of great wealth, in which all citizens had a right to share... Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result... If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.

“There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty.”

Edith Hamilton

Three Greek Plays, introduction (1937)
Contexto: There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life.”

Edith Hamilton

Saturday Evening Post (27 September 1958); also in Adventures of the Mind : From the Saturday Evening Post (1962), by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler
Contexto: It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”

Edith Hamilton libro Mythology

Fuente: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”

Edith Hamilton libro Mythology

Fuente: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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