There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and adult key to the foundation stones of world literature. She has not been content to be merely a reteller of tales. She has blended and organized the sometimes conflicting myths of the early storytellers, molding them with vivid clarity.
伊迪丝·汉密尔顿(Edith Hamilton,1867—1963)出生于德国,生长于美国印第安纳,是美国当代著名的古典文学家及教育家。7岁时,汉密尔顿在父亲的指导下接触拉丁文,随后学习希腊文、法文、德文。她在慕尼黑大学研究古希腊罗马文学,毕业后,一生从事古典文学的教学、研究和写作。1922年,她工作退休,开始专职写作,63岁时出版第yi本著作《希腊精神》(1930),获得广泛赞誉。随后出版《罗马精神》(1932)、《以色列的先知们》(1936)、《希腊戏剧三种》(1937,译著)、《希腊文学的伟大时代》(1943)、《希腊罗马神话》(1942,被美国各学校广泛使用)、《真理的见证:基督和他的解释者》(1949)、《上帝的代言人》(1949)和《希腊的回声》(1957)等多部著作。获得多个荣誉学位与奖章,包括美国学院文艺奖(American Academy of Arts and Letters)等。1957年,90岁高龄的汉密尔顿被授予雅典荣誉市民,以肯定她在希腊神话及古典文学方面的贡献。
赫西俄德在《工作与时日》的开篇就提到了关于人类起源的两个传说,一个是众所周知的普罗米修斯祭祀、盗火和潘多拉魔盒的故事,另一个则提到了现在人类诞生之前的几个金属种族。普罗米修斯用祭祀的谎言欺骗了宙斯,于是宙斯剥夺了人神同型的特权,人类开始要为果腹而奔波;潘多...
评分古典文学家伊迪丝汉密尔顿的作品《希腊罗马神话》,按照谱系介绍了古希腊和罗马的众多神话故事。 流传至今的古代神话大致有以下几个来源,古希腊诗人的文学作品,如荷马、赫西俄德、品达等;雅典的众多剧作家,如索福克勒斯、埃斯库罗斯等,希腊化时期托勒密王朝的亚历山大诗人...
评分"The stories that live the longest are those that never were, and always will be." That's probably one of the many definitions of myth. It tells us that the myths are not the events which were genuinely took place, but stories that could somehow pass down t...
评分“My aim has been nothing more ambitious than to keep distinct for the reader the very different writers from whom our knowldege of the myths comes" -----作者 就像作者汉密尔顿在前言里指出的那样,我们知道的古希腊神话故事是由历代作家收集、演绎、...
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