Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world.

In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She examines the works of Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, among others; the philosophy of Socrates and Plato’s role in preserving it; the historical accounts by Herodotus and Thucydides on the Greek wars with Persia and Sparta and by Xenophon on civilized living.

"No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.'" —New York Times

In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential poet of love; Horace, who chronicled a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics: Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. Hamilton concludes her work by contrasting the high-mindedness of Stoicism with the collapse of values as witnessed by the historian Tacitus and the satirist Juvenal.

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.

El gran clásico que ha cautivado y deleitado a millones de lectores alrededor del mundo con sus relatos atemporales de los dioses y los héroes que nos han inspirado desde el origen de los tiempos.

Publicada por primera vez en 1942, la Mitología de Edith Hamilton se convirtió rápidamente en una obra de referencia sobre los grandes relatos mitológicos. Conocido por sus continuas reediciones en inglés y en sus múltiples traducciones, este compendio de los mitos griegos, latinos y nórdicos constituye uno de esos libros imprescindibles en toda biblioteca. 

"La clara intención de Hamilton es despojar al campo olímpico y sus manifestaciones de grandilocuencia pero no de grandiosidad. No hay aquí hinchazones ni tampoco simplificaciones. Hay, por el contrario, una sabiduría que se apasiona por sus temas y que se nos desea transmitir con rigor y levedad, con viveza y suspicacia, y también con la libertad que generan la ironía y el humor. Y, sobre todo, esa sabiduría está habitada por el feliz propósito de dar cauce a un relato continuado, fluido, casi infinito. Las voces que retumban en el libro son las voces de las fuentes originales (Homero, Lucio, Ovidio, Apolonio, Virgilio, las sagas y las Eddas nórdicas) que se reordenan y se transforman al encadenarse a una secuencia elocuente que les impone una nobleza alta, un ritmo que no desmaya, un embrujo palpitante." Letras Libres

All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last 100 years, ranging from Jowett (1871) to scholars of the present day. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Edith Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato's philosophy and writings, by Huntington Cairns; and a comprehensive index which seeks, by means of cross references, to assist the reader with the philosophical vocabulary of the different translators.