Edith Hall – Classics Professor, Writer, Lecturer, Broadcaster

About Edith Hall

Fellow of the British Academy

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.

Books

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Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me (2024)

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Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

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India, Greece and Rome 1757–2007

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The Classical Vase Transformed

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Blog

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

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Activities

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Edith Hall was Principal Investigator on the research project Classics and Class in Great Britain and Ireland with Dr Henry Stead.

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Edith is Leader of the campaign Advocating Classics Education, based at Durham University, which promotes the teaching of Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in the UK secondary state school sector.

www.aceclassics.org.uk

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Edith is a regular TV and radio broadcaster, here interviewed by Margaret Mountford for the BBC in Athens Archaeological Museum

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Edith is Honorary Patron of Northern Broadsides Theatre Company

www.northern-broadsides.co.uk

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Edith is a Member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

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Edith is Trustee and Former Chair (2006-2019) of the Gilbert Murray Trust.

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Edith is the recipient of a Goodwin Award of Merit (2015) from the American Classical Society for her book Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris.

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Edith is the Recipient of the 2015 Erasmus Prize of the European Academy in recognition of her contribution to international research

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Edith is the recipient of a Humboldt Award 2012 for outstanding research

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Edith nominated Prof. Froma Zeitlin in the RHUL ‘The Woman Who Inspired Her’ series 2011.

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Edith is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at Oxford University, which she co-founded with Oliver Taplin in 1996.

www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk

Schools and 6th-Form Colleges

Schools and 6th-Form Colleges

Talking about Homer to the wonderful sixth form at Wilson’s School in Surrey, November 14th 2013

Schools and 6th-Form Colleges

Lecturing at the East End Classics Centre at BSIX Sixth-Form College in Hackney

Schools and 6th-Form Colleges

Edith’s brilliant students on the TEACH FIRST residential course, Cambridge, April 15th-16th 2014, rewrite Sophocles

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Edith is delighted and honoured to have been elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2022.

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On June 27 2022 Edith was deeply honoured to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Durham.

It was offered three years ago, but Covid has made the ceremony impossible until know. Edith is also…

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Edith has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Grant 2022-2025 for her project Aristotle Beyond the Academy: The Reception of Aristotle in Britain and Ireland 1660-1922. More news soon!

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New Youtube Channel with free lectures. Episode 1, The Mycenaeans, is here!

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A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain 1689-1939 was published on March 18th 2020!

In December 2020 it won the Rhakotis Prize and has been longlisted for the Runcoman Prize 20021. Cli…

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On 12th October 2019, Edith was made an Honorary Citizen of Palermo by its Mayor, Leoluca Orlando, in recognition of the ‘progressive humanism’ of her books.

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Imminent Book

Edith helped prepare her deceased friend Kate Bosher’s PhD thesis for publication…

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Aeon Magazine Essay

Edith’s essay ‘Why Read Aristotle Today’ was published free online in May 2018 and can be read here.…

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AHRC Leadership Fellow 2017-2019

On May 1st 2017 Edith launched her project, ACE, campaigning for classical subjects to be made avail…

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Edith recorded features for the websites of the National Theatre and Google Cultural Institute

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Bestselling Book

introducing the Ancient Greeks is being translated into Greek, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese …

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

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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.

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

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