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Edith Hamilton quote

"I came to the Greeks early," Hamilton told an interviewer when she was 91, "and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today."

For those unfamiliar with Edith Hamilton;

She began learning Latin and Greek when she was seven years old and as an adult could read them as if they were English. Later, she studied in Germany but leaving before finishing her doctorate, she returned to the US and helped found the Bryn Mawr School for girls in Baltimore, where she was headmistress until her retirement in 1922. She then began writing books: The Greek Way, The Roman Way, The Echo of Greece, and Mythology are all well known to American classicists.

She was made an honorary citizen of Athens in 1957 and died six years later at the age of 91.