Edith Hall
@edithmayhall.bsky.social
Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Why is Plato’s Atlantis a Y-Chromosome thing? I’m running an international conference on in it in Durham today and embarrassingly could not persuade a single female to supplement the all-male responses to the Call for Papers. I tried so hard
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Why is Plato’s Atlantis a Y-Chromosome thing? I’m running an international conference on in it in Durham today and embarrassingly could not persuade a single female to supplement the all-male responses to the Call for Papers. I tried so hard
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We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
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Much enjoyed Epic of the Earth, read after hearing your talk on 9th October @britishacademy.bsky.social. Next week: environmental justice in respect of ecocide: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Much enjoyed Epic of the Earth, read after hearing your talk on 9th October @britishacademy.bsky.social. Next week: environmental justice in respect of ecocide: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Ecocide, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice Conference
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October 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Much enjoyed Epic of the Earth, read after hearing your talk on 9th October @britishacademy.bsky.social. Next week: environmental justice in respect of ecocide: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Much enjoyed Epic of the Earth, read after hearing your talk on 9th October @britishacademy.bsky.social. Next week: environmental justice in respect of ecocide: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Our #bookoftheweek is Edith Hall's new reading of Homer's Iliad as one root in the beginning of ecological disaster for contemporary society. Thought-provoking and smart, Hall astounds in this fresh perspective on how ancient history permeates our environment today. ☀️
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our #bookoftheweek is Edith Hall's new reading of Homer's Iliad as one root in the beginning of ecological disaster for contemporary society. Thought-provoking and smart, Hall astounds in this fresh perspective on how ancient history permeates our environment today. ☀️
Gobsmacked that Facing down the Furies wins 2025 International (formerly London) Hellenic Prize. Good to see mental health issues recognised. Here's to my valiant late mother, Brenda Hall née Henderson, who faced them down, supreme friend Peggy Reynolds and @rickypo.bsky.social, sine quibus non
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Gobsmacked that Facing down the Furies wins 2025 International (formerly London) Hellenic Prize. Good to see mental health issues recognised. Here's to my valiant late mother, Brenda Hall née Henderson, who faced them down, supreme friend Peggy Reynolds and @rickypo.bsky.social, sine quibus non
Friends, I’ve written a novel. It’s about how the Gen Z children of dysfunctional boomers Clytemnestra and Agamemnon try to move on in Crimea, Thessaly and Vravrona. Now I just need to find a publisher! Any suggestions?
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Friends, I’ve written a novel. It’s about how the Gen Z children of dysfunctional boomers Clytemnestra and Agamemnon try to move on in Crimea, Thessaly and Vravrona. Now I just need to find a publisher! Any suggestions?
I had a blast at Berwick on Tweed Literary Festival today being brilliantly interviewed by archaeologist Prof James Crowe on my Iliad book. Lovely town. I want to live here.
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I had a blast at Berwick on Tweed Literary Festival today being brilliantly interviewed by archaeologist Prof James Crowe on my Iliad book. Lovely town. I want to live here.
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What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? The fantastic @edithmayhall.bsky.social now giving another historical view
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? The fantastic @edithmayhall.bsky.social now giving another historical view
My tribute to Tony Harrison last week was to read his great, last, valedictory poem ‘Polygons’ at Delphi, where he started it.
October 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My tribute to Tony Harrison last week was to read his great, last, valedictory poem ‘Polygons’ at Delphi, where he started it.
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Edith Hall on Tony Harrison, eight years ago:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4432...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4432...
Tony Harrison: The bard of Beeston
Even at 80, his snarling, trenchant poems still speak up for the voiceless working classes
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Edith Hall on Tony Harrison, eight years ago:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4432...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4432...
Pre-Raphaelite Simeon Solomon was born this day 1840. He suffered prosecution and persecution, aggravated by antisemitism, for homosexuality. His Toilet of a Roman Lady (1869) was inspired by Pompeii frescoes, especially this one of Dido
October 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Pre-Raphaelite Simeon Solomon was born this day 1840. He suffered prosecution and persecution, aggravated by antisemitism, for homosexuality. His Toilet of a Roman Lady (1869) was inspired by Pompeii frescoes, especially this one of Dido
This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
@lrb.co.uk
@richardburgon.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
@richardburgon.bsky.social
My tribute to Tony Harrison number 2 here www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison
Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness
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September 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
My tribute to Tony Harrison number 2 here www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Prestigious Northern Uni Durham Crowned Britain’s University Of The Year 2025 By the Sunday Times timeout.com/uk/news/the-... So glad to work here
This prestigious northern uni was crowned Britain’s ‘University of the Year 2026’
The uni rankings are out – so, who’s top of the class?
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September 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Prestigious Northern Uni Durham Crowned Britain’s University Of The Year 2025 By the Sunday Times timeout.com/uk/news/the-... So glad to work here
Extremely sad that my much-loved friend and ally of over thirty-five years, the great poet, dramatist, socialist and acerbic wit Tony Harrison, died yesterday morning, peacefully, with his devoted partner, actress Sian Thomas, at his side. I'm so glad I visited them last week.
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Extremely sad that my much-loved friend and ally of over thirty-five years, the great poet, dramatist, socialist and acerbic wit Tony Harrison, died yesterday morning, peacefully, with his devoted partner, actress Sian Thomas, at his side. I'm so glad I visited them last week.
Thrilled the Special Issue of Green Letters I edited with Alison Sharrock is now online if you have access to Taylor and Francis. Mostly on trees in epic from Homer to Nonnus
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thrilled the Special Issue of Green Letters I edited with Alison Sharrock is now online if you have access to Taylor and Francis. Mostly on trees in epic from Homer to Nonnus
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What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? Book your free ticket to come hear from @edithmayhall.bsky.social on this topic at our Late on Thursday 9th Oct. Plus loads more panels, a zine making workshop and exhibits
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
Living with the planet LATE
Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy Late. Immerse yourself in the sounds and music of the rainforests of Papua New Guinea; discu...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? Book your free ticket to come hear from @edithmayhall.bsky.social on this topic at our Late on Thursday 9th Oct. Plus loads more panels, a zine making workshop and exhibits
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
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📣 ANOTHER EVENT! 📣
We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
📣 ANOTHER EVENT! 📣
We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/euripid... Excellent, hilarious and inexpensive productions of TWO Ancient Greek plays on in central London this week! I’m doing a post show talk tomorrow night. Do come !
Euripides' CYCLOPS and Aristophanes' CLOUDS
Produced and presented by Thiasos Theatre Company Thiasos returns to The Cockpit with a fabulous double bill of Euripides' CYCLOPS, the only surviving satyr play from Ancient Greece, and
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September 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/euripid... Excellent, hilarious and inexpensive productions of TWO Ancient Greek plays on in central London this week! I’m doing a post show talk tomorrow night. Do come !
My daughter has just found this in Istanbul
September 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My daughter has just found this in Istanbul
Yesterday at Ye Houses of Parliament my former PhD student and colleague Dr Peter Swallow MP hosted the launch of my book with Durham colleague Prof Arlene Holmes-Henderson promoting Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in secondary education. It was a joy.
September 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yesterday at Ye Houses of Parliament my former PhD student and colleague Dr Peter Swallow MP hosted the launch of my book with Durham colleague Prof Arlene Holmes-Henderson promoting Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in secondary education. It was a joy.
I was interviewed by Ian HIslop on Radio 4 today about Juvenal but forgot all about having recorded it. It's short, fun and here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes - Series 2 - Mother-in-Law Jokes - BBC Sounds
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I was interviewed by Ian HIslop on Radio 4 today about Juvenal but forgot all about having recorded it. It's short, fun and here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was interviewed by Ian Hislop on Radio 4 today and you can hear it here: short but fun programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes - Series 2 - Mother-in-Law Jokes - BBC Sounds
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I was interviewed by Ian Hislop on Radio 4 today and you can hear it here: short but fun programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
On this day 44 BCE Cleopatra announced her son Caesarion co-ruler of Egypt. Since Caesar's propaganda equated Cleopatra with Isis-Venus, this Pompeii image of Venus & Cupid may be Cleo & son. However silly, it's not as bad as the choice of an uber-Aryan sprog = Caesarion in "that" movie.
September 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
On this day 44 BCE Cleopatra announced her son Caesarion co-ruler of Egypt. Since Caesar's propaganda equated Cleopatra with Isis-Venus, this Pompeii image of Venus & Cupid may be Cleo & son. However silly, it's not as bad as the choice of an uber-Aryan sprog = Caesarion in "that" movie.
On #InternationalCosplayDay, recall that Herodotus says when c. 566 BCE Peisistratus returned to Athens he hired a tall woman, Phye, to impersonate the goddess Athena as his escort to legitimise his claim to sovereignty. Worth a try if you crave absolute power: it worked for him
August 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
On #InternationalCosplayDay, recall that Herodotus says when c. 566 BCE Peisistratus returned to Athens he hired a tall woman, Phye, to impersonate the goddess Athena as his escort to legitimise his claim to sovereignty. Worth a try if you crave absolute power: it worked for him