Edith has written her first work of fiction, provisionally entitled Survivors’ Septet, which explores how the younger generation of the House of Atreus tried to recover from the…
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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 ancient thought and civilisation in UK prisons: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ace-in-prisons
International Hellenic Prize
Edith’s 2024 monograph Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me won the International Hellenic Prize, awarded in Athens in February 2026.
Queens of Combat
Edith appears in the PBS documentary about women gladiators in the ancient Roman world, which she filmed on location at amphitheatres and museums in Italy.
Aristophanes Conference 3-4 July 2017
Edith convened an international conference on Aristophanes, How Is/Was Aristophanes Funny? at King’s College London. Several of her current and most recent research & PhD students contributed.
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
