Authors: Edith Hamilton
ISBN-13: 9780393310771, ISBN-10: 0393310779
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: August 1993
Edition: Reissue
Edith Hamilton won the National Achievement Award in 1950, received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters from Yale University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1957 she was many an honorary citizen of Athens and was decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction by King Paul of Greece.
The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.