Edith Hamilton
Born in 1867
Edith Hamilton was a renowned educator, writer, and historian born in 1867 in Germany to American parents.
She grew up in Indiana and received an extensive classical education from a young age.
Hamilton attended Bryn Mawr College and later studied in Germany.
She served as headmistress of Bryn Mawr Preparatory School for 26 years before embarking on a successful writing career in her sixties.
Her works on Greek and Roman culture, particularly "The Greek Way" and "Mythology," became critical and popular successes.
Hamilton received numerous honors, including honorary citizenship of Athens, and continued writing and traveling well into her nineties before passing away in 1963.
