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Edith Hall is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the… more

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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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by Edith Hall

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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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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.
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by Edith Hall

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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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by Edith Hall

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Damn! My secret is out!
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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.
The poster for the event. It features an unfinished painting of a woman with no face, standing on a cliff.
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by Edith Hall

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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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Reposted by: Edith Hall, Margot C. Finn

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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...
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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by Edith Hall

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My daughter has just found this in Istanbul
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by Edith Hall

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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.
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by Edith Hall

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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Edith Hall

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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
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by Edith Hall

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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.
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by Edith Hall

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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
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by Edith Hall

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Love him or hate him, classical tradition people can't ignore Jacques-Louis David, btd 1748, who ranges from ludicrous (Mars & Venus) to sublime: Brutus' face in The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) grimly presages the gore & disillusionment of the Reign of Terror
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It's radio repeat day! Catch me and Prof @edithmayhall.bsky.social discussing the Nigella of Ancient Greece, goddess of hearth and home (and carbs and donkeys) Hestia, at 9:30am on BBC Radio 4 📻 🍞

🎧 Listen again on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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by Edith Hall

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These two Ancient Greek plays on in London mid-September are brilliantly acted and directed. Thiasos really know what they’re doing with comedy. I’m speaking on 17th. thecockpit.org.uk/show/euripides…
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by Edith Hall

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On #WorldLakeDay the lagoon at Kalloni on Lesvos where Aristotle invented marine zoology and his best friend Theophrastus studied wetland plants. I was there in 2016 with darling daughter Sarah Poynder m.youtube.com/watch?v=-moYjt… who made this film
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by Edith Hall

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Solidarity to all my US feminist friends of any gender in the face of misogyny on Women’s Equality Day, commemorating August 26th 1920 when the 19th Amendment became law and recognised women's right to vote. Time to bang them cymbals
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by Edith Hall

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On #InternationalDogDay a gorgeous Athenian drinking vessel in the shape of a beautiful dog's head, in loving memory of the only dog I've ever been best friends with, Finlay Poynder, who died almost exactly a year ago and I think about every single day @rickypo.bsky.social
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by Edith Hall

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The book images that inspired novelist Barry Unsworth, author of Iphigenia novel The Songs of the Kings, at age 5: Blanche Winder, Once Upon a Time: Children's Stories from the Classics. Images by Burslem boy Harry G. Theaker. LOVE his Medea and Pan with bunnies.
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by Edith Hall

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#InternationalStrangeMusicDay is a good excuse to post a couple of creepy sirens. The Victorians deleted the properly scary avian elements to indulge in soft-porn full human female nudes in their paintings.
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by Edith Hall

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On UNESCO #InternationalDayfortheRemebranceoftheSlaveTradeanditsAbolition commemoration of marriage of a butcher's ex-slaves, Lucius Aurelius Hermia to Aurelia Philematium. "She was the only one for me, and lived her life faithful to her faithful husband". Aww. 80 BCE From Lazio, now BM.
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by Edith Hall

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Finally published and Open Access to read for free via this link by anyone interested in introducing classical subjects to secondary education. A delight to see my co-author Arlene Holmes-Henderson today. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/.../97818008...
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by Edith Hall

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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, born 19/08/1621, saw humour in the myth of Juno demanding the cow into which Jupiter had transformed her love rival Io as a gift. Top god looks pathetic; Juno totally in control; Io gorgeous but bemused. I love the spikey coronet and usurped pet peacock
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by Edith Hall

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On #WorldElephantDay let's appreciate these gorgeous creatures. Isaac Brun Animalium quadrupedum variorum typi (1624)--Engravings of various quadruped animals
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by Edith Hall

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For #sonsanddaughtersday, just Leto, the proud single mum, in proper mum headgear, her fingers saying "you nailed it" as Apollo strums and Artemis, quiver on her back, listens. Pets at hand. Made in Athens, now in British Museum, amphora ca. 520 - 500 B.C.
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by Edith Hall

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Back after a month recovering from nasty accident: blog to come. On #WorldLionDay a spectacular mosaic from Uzzita in Bardo Museum, Tunis, dedicated by the Leontii confraternity: "O LION, YOU PRESUMED, YOU EXPEDITED, YOU DEDICATED".
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by Edith Hall

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I want like to hear from anyone who has information on history/current practice of teaching Classics-related subjects in prisons internationally. Please email me at my two names separated by a dot @durham.ac.uk. See novus.ac.uk/news/working...
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by Edith Hall

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Favourite cat, favourite gnomess, favourite plant. Life looking up slightly
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