Edith Hall – Classics Professor, Writer, Lecturer, Broadcaster

About Edith Hall

Edith Hall is a Durham University Academic who specialises in putting pleasure into the history, literature, theatre, myth and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome and their continuing impact in the modern world.

New Novel

Edith has written her first work of fiction, provisionally entitled Survivors’ Septet, which explore…

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Prison Education Fundraiser

Edith has launched a campaign to raise £20,000 to fund the continuation of her initiative to teach a…

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International Hellenic Prize

Edith’s 2024 monograph Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me won the Internati…

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Paying respect to Elizabeth Carter, regarded by Samuel Johnson as the best Greek scholar in England.

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Edith spoke on a panel at a Warsaw conference, Classics & Communism, with Drs Justine McConnell, Henry Stead and Rosa Andujar in January 2015.

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On 21st June 2016, Edith gave the Keynote Lecture to Notre Dame conference on Irish Classics convened by Prof. Isabelle Torrance at the Royal Irish Academy

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Aristophanes Conference 3-4 July 2017

Edith convened an international conference on Aristophanes, How Is/Was Aristophanes Funny? at King’s…

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On 30th January 2014, Edith discussed and recited on BBC2 NEWSNIGHT the five-stanza poem by Sappho which was discovered on a papyrus.

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Edith’s Classics & Class research project, on which she works with Dr Henry Stead (below), was the only Arts and Humanities project shortlisted for the King’s Research Project of the Year Award.

At the Awards Ceremony with Professor Hugh Bowden, Head of the Classics Department…

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Co-edited with Dr Rosie Wyles, Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, was published in 2016.

Dr Rosie Wyles link, Eidolon link…

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On 23rd October 2016 Tasoula Eptakili’s feature-length interview with Edith was published in Kathimerini newspaper

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Edith’s video about how medieval manuscripts saved Homer for posterity has just been launched on the British Library website

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Blog

For Edith’s fortnightly blog, the Edithorial, click here

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