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The Roman Way Paperback – August 17, 1993
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In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time.
Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. The story concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal.- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateAugust 17, 1993
- Dimensions5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
- ISBN-100393310787
- ISBN-13978-0393310788
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (August 17, 1993)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393310787
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393310788
- Item Weight : 6.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,795,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #490 in Classic Greek Literature
- #2,979 in Ancient Roman History (Books)
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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. 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 the position of headmistress of the Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore, Maryland. For the next twenty-six years, she directed the education of about four hundred girls per year. After her retirement in 1922, she started writing and publishing scholarly articles on Greek drama. In 1930, when she was sixty-three years old, she published The Greek Way, in which she presented parallels between life in ancient Greece and in modern times. The book was a critical and popular success. In 1932, she published The Roman Way, which was also very successful. These were followed by The Prophets of Israel (1936), Witness to the Truth: Christ and His Interpreters (1949), Three Greek Plays, translations of Aeschylus and Euripides (1937), Mythology (1942), The Great Age of Greek Literature (1943), Spokesmen for God (1949) and Echo of Greece (1957). Hamilton traveled to Greece in 1957 to be made an honorary citizen of Athens and to see a performance in front of the Acropolis of one of her translations of Greek plays. She was ninety years old at the time. At home, Hamilton was a recipient of many honorary degrees and awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Edith Hamilton died on May 31, 1963 in Washington, D.C.
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For Hamilton, the Romans moved into the center of western culture, usurping the Greeks' place, from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd AD. In The Roman Way she looks at the exemplary writers and forms who have had a lasting impact on western culture, and she never wavers from the view that understanding the Romans is key to making sense of modern public and private life. Her purpose is to palpate the Romans themselves--their values and social systems--believing the best way to understand them is through their writing. She helpfully compares and contrasts Roman romanticism with Greek classicism throughout the book. Obviously, in an introductory text like this, not every writer can have his due; those to whom she pays the most attention are Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Horace, Catallus, Juvenal, Virgil and Seneca. Through them, she reveals the Caesars, the Claudii, the Stoics, the art, the bloody warfare, the greed, the corruption, gender relations, class structure, the political intrigues and paradoxes, and the empire's demise.
Is this a complete concordance to the Roman canon? No. A comprehensive history? No. It's about getting a feel for who the Romans were and what mattered to them in their own words and why they continue to matter. It is a compelling overview made lively by Hamilton who does not look upon her topic as dead but rather quite vital.
The Roman Way is an exquisitely well-written book that I recommend to anyone interested in Roman literature.
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Mike Duncan’s podcasts the History of Rome turned me on to this. I urge you to drink this in.
They should be on the course for all who wish to understand the nature of the western minid and outlook.
These are seminal works should not be allowed to languish on the top shelves of Libraries
but should be the subject-matter of tutorials, or study groups!
She attempts to depict Roman civilization by the great writers of the period, and she is partially successful in her attempt.
I, like other reviewers, particularly enjoyed her chapters on Cicero and Caesar as well as the title chapter. Her concluding chapter is an excellent summation of the Roman Empire. Unfortunately many of her chapters in the book are lacking in their support of her conclusion.
Hamilton does tend to get lost in the writings of the romantics, stoics and other authors and occasionally the reader is left with the notion that her book is a study of Roman literature. Bear with her and you'll see her view of Roman history come about eventually.
I would consider this book to be an excellent supplement to anyone studying the Romans. Especially for its analysis of the relationship between Caesar and Cicero and its analysis of Cicero himself. However, I would consider it an excellent supplement only, not a complete and thorough study of the whole of Roman history by itself.
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I had hoped to learn about daily life and what it was like to live in the various kinds of Roman family. Some of it is in there.
A good companion to The History Of Rome podcast that reccomended it to me.