This enables Fry to explain her divine attributes: a bow and arrows, a short practical tunic, hunting dogs, choirs of maidens, protection from men and, of course, the moon.

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. They lived together in Gramercy Park, Manhattan and Sea Wall, Maine, during which time they raised and home-schooled Reid's nephew, Francis Dorian Fielding Reid (1917–2008). Montgomery Hamilton, a scholarly man of leisure, was one of Allen and Emerine (Holman) Hamilton's eleven children; however, only five of the siblings lived.

The book received favorable reviews, was another Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and had sold more than four and a half million copies by 1957.

I have an old tattered paperback copy of this which helped guide me through the Odyssey and the Iliad.Edith became an educator and renowned author; Alice became a founder of industrial medicine; [14] Margaret, like her older sister, Edith, became an educator and headmistress at Bryn Mawr School; [15] and Norah was an artist. He tells us that he imagines Hera, queen of the gods, “hurling china ornaments at feckless minions”.