{"id":17837,"date":"2024-03-04T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17837"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:16:32","slug":"the-first-lady-of-american-classics-remembering-edith-hamilton-antigone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17837","title":{"rendered":"The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton \u2013 Antigone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton \u2013 Antigone<br>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/antigonejournal.com\/2024\/03\/remembering-edith-hamilton\/\">antigonejournal.com\/2024\/03\/remembering-edith-hamilton\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ff665e1f\">Possibly Edith Hamilton (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edith_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here her Wiki entry<\/a>) is one of those extraordinary American women renowned only on their home turf and amongst those steeped in Classics education. Whatever, I only came across Hamilton by chance a few years ago whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=610\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"610\">reading Jesmyn Ward&#8217;s <em>Salvage the Bones<\/em><\/a> in which the feisty young protagonist is given a copy of <em>Mythology<\/em> to read by a teacher, and finds solace in those ancient myths &#8211; and refuge from the cruel realities of poverty and despair in the Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton \u2013 Antigone\u2014 Read on antigonejournal.com\/2024\/03\/remembering-edith-hamilton\/ Possibly Edith Hamilton (here her Wiki entry) is one of those extraordinary American women renowned only on their home turf and amongst those steeped in Classics education. Whatever, I only came across Hamilton by chance a few years ago whilst reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton \u2013 Antigone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[368,4,149,1],"tags":[31,518,80],"class_list":["post-17837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-classica","category-classics","category-literature","category-uncategorized","tag-antigone","tag-edith-hamilton","tag-jesmyn-ward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17850,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions\/17850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}