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    Edith Hamilton was a German-American educator, writer, and historian born in 1867 in Dresden, Germany. She grew up in Indiana and received an extensive classical education from her father before earning her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1894. Hamilton furthered her studies in Germany before returning to the U.S. in 1896, where she worked as a headmistress and authored influential books on Greek mythology that brought classical texts to wide audiences.

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    Edith Hamilton was a German-American educator, writer, and historian born in 1867 in Dresden, Germany. She grew up in Indiana and received an extensive classical education from her father before earning her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1894. Hamilton furthered her studies in Germany before returning to the U.S. in 1896, where she worked as a headmistress and authored influential books on Greek mythology that brought classical texts to wide audiences.

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    Edith Hamilton was a German-American educator, writer, and historian born in 1867 in Dresden, Germany. She grew up in Indiana and received an extensive classical education from her father before earning her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1894. Hamilton furthered her studies in Germany before returning to the U.S. in 1896, where she worked as a headmistress and authored influential books on Greek mythology that brought classical texts to wide audiences.

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    Edith Hamilton

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    Edith Hamilton was a German-American educator, writer, and historian born in 1867 in Dresden, Germany. She grew up in Indiana and received an extensive classical education from her father before earning her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1894. Hamilton furthered her studies in Germany before returning to the U.S. in 1896, where she worked as a headmistress and authored influential books on Greek mythology that brought classical texts to wide audiences.

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    Edith Hamilton

    Born
    in Dresden, Germany 
    August 12, 1867

    Died
    May 31, 1963

    Genre
    Nonfiction

    Influences
    The ancient Greeks

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    Edith Hamilton, an educator, writer and a historian, was born August 12, 1867 in
    Dresden, Germany, of American parents and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
    Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added
    Greek, French and German to her curriculum. Hamilton's education continued at Miss
    Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and at Bryn Mawr College near
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1894 with an M.A. degree.
    The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women
    students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich.
    Hamilton returned to the United States in 1896 and accepted a position of the
    headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Ba ...more

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