Edith Hamilton was 7 when her father, a Fort Wayne, Ind., wholesale grocer, introduced her to the study of Latin. Edith’s parents were disenchanted with their mid-19th-century public schools, ...

Historian Victoria Houseman’s research into Edith Hamilton – a famed author and granddaughter of one of Fort Wayne’s founding fathers – included scrolling through microfilm reels of Hamilton’s ...

Edith Jean (Wright) Hamilton Feb. 29, 1920 – Jan. 1, 2006 Jean’s journey through the devastating disease of Alzheimer’s came to an end on Sunday (New Year’s Day) at the age of 85. We are comforted to ...

At the center of the stage of the ancient theater of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, a frail old lady stood one night last week nodding to the applause of cabinet ministers, diplomats ...

The discipline of “classical” literature has long been associated with social gatekeeping. The mastery of Latin and ancient Greek—or at least enough of an acquaintance to be able to trot out a ...

EDITH M. HAMILTON (ne Lucas) On February 2, 2004. Of Philadelphia. Formerly of Oakland, California. Loving mother of Sandra Jones, grandmother of Kimberly Sweat, and great-grandmother of Emma Foster ...

Edith (Hamilton) Jones 1922 — 2011 AYER — Edith (Hamilton) Jones, 88, of Ayer, died Thursday, February 17, 2011, at the Apple Valley Center in Ayer, after a lengthy illness. Born March 9, 1922 in ...