The Echo of Greece Author:Edith Hamilton Edith Hamilton won a notable place in contemporary American letters through her books on the culture of the ancient world. A student of the classics from her earliest youth, she read Latin and Greek all her life for her own pleasure. She was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1894 and did graduate work in Greek and Latin at the University of Munich, to... more » which she was the first woman ever admitted. She was for twenty-five years Head Mistress of the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore. It was not until 1930, when she was 63, that she began her writing career with The Greek Way. At once Miss Hamilton won a wide and ardent audience. That audinece was augmented with each of her subsequent books: The Roman Way, Spokesmen for God, Three Greek Plays, Mythology, Witness to the Truth, and The Echo of Greece.« less