Next comes Love, and with it Heaven and Earth, and then monsters and the godlike Titans. The Greek creation story begins with only Chaos, Night, and Death. Lesser gods and supernatural creatures include Eros, nymphs of all kinds, and personifications of abstract concepts like Justice and Memory. Other important gods are Demeter, goddess of corn, and Dionysus, the god of wine, both of whom live on earth. Hamilton then introduces the major Greek gods, who live on Mount Olympus: Zeus, the chief and god of thunder and sky, Hera, his sister and jealous wife, his fierce, independent daughters Athena and Artemis, his sons cruel Ares and poetic, prophetic Apollo, his brothers, Poseidon the sea god and Hades the god of the dead, Hestia, his sister and the protector of the hearth, the clever messenger Hermes, the craftsman Hephaestus, and Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty.
In her introduction, she gives her reason for studying these myths, as she sees them as precursors to Western thought and useful to modern Americans. The book holds only a loose chronological order, as the mythological world is so huge and entangled that Hamilton must often reference characters and stories that are explained much earlier or later. Hamilton died of complications from congestive heart failure in his home on February 28, 2012, at age 87 in Portland, Oregon.Edith Hamilton’s Mythology is like a huge study guide itself, as it overviews the principle Greek and Roman myths and briefly delves into Norse mythology. They had five children: Ross, Donald, Catherine, Patrick and Jean. In 1949 Hamilton married Mary Jean Golden, a dancer from the New York City Ballet. There he served as dean of arts and letters until his retirement in 1986. He then taught religion at New College in Sarasota, Florida before becoming a faculty member at Portland State University in 1970.
In 1953 Hamilton joined the faculty at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School until he lost his endowed chair in 1967. Time magazine published the article " Is God Dead?" that same year. Altizer co-authored the book Radical Theology and the Death of God (1966). In 1952 Hamilton received a doctorate in theology from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, then earned a master's degree from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1949.
In 1943 Hamilton graduated from Oberlin College. Hamilton was born March 9, 1924, to William Hughes Hamilton II and Helen Hamilton (née Anderson). Hamilton died in 2012 at age 87 in Portland, Oregon. William Hughes Hamilton III (Ma– February 28, 2012) was a prominent theologian and proponent of the Death of God movement. Radical Theology and the Death of God (1966)
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