He carried his beaten, underlined and annotated copy around with him for years, reading sections aloud to audiences in a flat, unrhythmic voice with a mournful edge" and could recite from memory various passages of Aeschylus that Hamilton had translated. What's more (displaying my ignorance here) I was confused over the title of the play, and some of the main protagonists of the play, the Furies. Fry’s gods and heroes exchange banter in an endearing style resembling his own posh but colloquial metropolitan argot. Ariadne falls in love with the hero Theseus and uses a golden thread to help him defeat the Labyrinth of the dreaded Minotaur. I was also amazed to learn that Perseus was really the one who severed Medusa's snake-decorated head just like in Rick Rioldan's Percy Jackson and the Olympian's The Lightning Thief.

The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich.

Edith was the oldest of five siblings that included three sisters ( Alice (1869–1970), Margaret (1871–1969), and Norah (1873–1945)) and a brother (Arthur "Quint" (1886–1967)), all of whom were accomplished in their respective fields.

Athenian culture blossomed, as the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides competed in the renowned Athenian drama festivals.

I based the comparative evaluation on three main general criteria - readability, accuracy, and scope (breadth and depth of coverage); I also looked at how each book handled two particular examples -- the life of Hercules and the story of Philomela and Procne. Although the myths remain unchanged, the way that we think about them has evolved considerably over the last 150 years. According to reviewers, Hamilton's The Prophets of Israel (1936) had similarities to her earlier books about Greeks and Romans by making the prophets' messages relevant to contemporary readers. Fry insists eloquently in his foreword that the dazzling Greek myths are for everyone and require no traditional classical education whatsoever.