EDITH HAMILTON, 1867-1963

Edith Hamilton, classicist, was born on August 12, 1867, to Gertrude (Pond) and Montgomery Hamilton. She grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, attended Miss Porter's School (1884-1886), and entered Bryn Mawr College in 1891. She was graduated in 1894 with A.B. and A.M. degrees and a fellowship that enabled her and her sister Alice to study in Germany. EH was headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore from 1896 to 1922. Encouraged by friends to write on her specialty, classical antiquity, she published The Greek Way (1930) and The Roman Way (1932). She translated Greek dramas, wrote on biblical antiquity, and was made an honorary citizen of Athens. She shared homes in Maine, New York, and Washington with Doris Reid until EH's death in Washington in 1963.