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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

Newsnight Link

 

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

 

 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

 

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

READ HERE

 

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

 

Bestselling Book

introducing the Ancient Greeks is being translated into Greek, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese and has received 5-star reviews in all major UK newspapers

 

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