Digging into the back catalogue of In Our Time and uncovered @edithmayhall.bsky.social bossing a discussion of Thermopylae in 2004, in contrast to a certain podcasting historian also on the panel…!

My TLS review of two great books on ancient Roman theatre by Jessica Clarke and Peter Wiseman.

Off to Ireland for much-needed R&R. This time the culprit that got me delayed 30 minutes at security was once again Aristotle, but clearly his (Meta)physics are alarming and need to be swabbed for dangerous toxins, especially when their owner has Aristotle on her baseball cap

Spent the most thrilling morning being treated to a personal tour of Larissa's ancient theatre by its excavator, Prof George Toufexis. It was covered for centuries until 1985; he has spent his whole life resurrecting where the ancient Thessalian League assembled for entertainment

why are we so ashamed of culture? Because we equate it with class I think, which is rubbish, and a disservice to us all. Heard this yesterday, excellent on the link between classical Greek texts and Socialist movements. Could bang on further but not enough characters. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Private Passions - Edith Hall - Edith Hall - BBC Sounds

Michael Berkeley's guest is the classicist Edith Hall.

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🏛️ Last week, @edithmayhall.bsky.social and @profarlenehh.bsky.social celebrated the launch of their book at the Houses of Parliament last Tuesday, hosted by Dr Peter Swallow MP! #AncientSky Discover more and read this #OpenAccess book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

People often ask whether I am related to the great American archaeologist Edith Hall (Dohan). Sadly, no. She just looked so cool riding to her sites. I "dig" the hat-and-cravat look.

You're Dead To Me: Hypatia of Alexandria. pca.st/episode/212e...

Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician, martyr and feminist icon

Greg Jenner is joined in late antique Egypt by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Olga Koch to learn about the life of mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria. An important mathematical and astronomical…

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The roots of environmental awareness in classical literature | Great British Life www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/co...

Can ancient wisdom help us read the climate crisis?

Professor Edith Hall explores the roots of environmental awareness in classical literature

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Welcome to Classical Encounters in England's North East, edited by Edith Hall, Rory McInnes-Gibbons and Edmund Thomas, and featuring my chapter on Frank Graham: A Communist on the Wall, liberally illustrated with work by Ron Embleton. Available now from Routledge.

Edith Hall, Philip Collins, Stephen Batchelor, Reetika Subramanian and Tom F Wright join Anne McElvoy to discuss rhetoric, advocacy and sharing knowledge via song and story telling www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Oral tradition and oracy

Anne McElvoy and guests look at speaking fluently in politics, the classroom & communities

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I presume that there will be quite a bit in Chris Stray's Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 as well. Hall and Stead's A People's History of Classics will also have loads (see their website too for lots of things related).

Can someone DM me when we get the Mary Beard critique of the Paul Cartledge critique of the Edith Hall critique of the Simon Goldhill critique of the Emily Wilson critique of the Christopher Nolan film? But only when it's out as an audiobook narrated by Melvyn Bragg.

I've decided that when my millions come through, I'm hiring Mary Beard and Edith Hall on a luxury tour around Italy and Greece where I will forget 90% of what they explain about what I'm looking at.

Edith Hall i sin bok Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World” tittar på Iliaden ur ekokritiskt perspektiv Hon skriver att redan de gamla grekerna noterade att Iliaden har mindre fokus på havet än Odyssey vilket resulterar i att det äts betydligt mindre fisk i den

From Medea to Lindsay Clancy – Medea: A Life explores our interest in ‘killer mothers’ www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

How Medea murdered her children – then became a feminist heroine

As the Lindsay Clancy trial shows, the ‘killer mother’ continues to fascinate us. Classicist Edith Hall explores the phenomenon’s history

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On #WorldLetterWritingDay a shopping list sent by Heraclides to his brother Petechois in the third century CE in Greco-Roman Egypt – poultry, bread, lupines, chick peas, kidney beans and fenugreek for supper please.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, born 29/1780, won the 1801 Prix de Rome for his fleshy Embassy to Achilles (Iliad 9) Achilles puts aside his lyre, Patroclus is amused, Odysseus leads, Phoenix looks old, Ajax has been working out. The woman may be Achilles' interim enslaved concubine Diomede.

Edward Burne-Jones was born 28 August 1833. I'm not overly keen on the pallid classicism of the Pre-Raphaelites, but I make an exception for 'Atlas Turned to Stone'. Perseus has turned him into a rock, but his labour in supporting the universe is shown as heroic, even Christ-like

Wonderful to see T. P. Wiseman’s “paradigm-shifting” The Lost History of Roman Theatre reviewed by @edithmayhall.bsky.social in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social. Read more here (£): www.the-tls.com/classics/the...

The mask of Apollo

A fresh look at Roman theatre

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On #InternationalDogDay, here is Aristopolis ('Best City'), the pet of a girl named Antigona, who died in Alexandria, Egypt, in about 275 BCE but now finds herself in the Louvre. At least she has the company of a Girl's Best Friend to play with.

On #WorldMosquitoDay wise words from Aesop illustrated by Walter Crane. "There were politicians in Aesop's day". Is it better to stick with those in power who've already bled you dry or to bring in new ones who might be even greedier?

Blog on my friend and mentor Professor Pat Easterling, who died this week edithorial.blogspot.com/2026/08/reme...

Next up is Edith Hall who has been practicing Aristotelian virtue ethics for a long time and has lived through divorces, bereavements, and raising kids and still stands by it! She wrote the book Aristotleʼs Way in 2018: amzn.to/4fFF2m6

I've just finished indexing 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy', edited by Edith Hall, Arlene Holmes-Henderson and others - a fascinating collection on Aristotle's role in early modern politics, popular medicine, popular science, jurisprudence, and much more! www.routledge.com/Aristotle-Be...

Book review: Cicero: A Roman tragedy by Catharine Edwards "Edwards lets Cicero speak to us through his own words, unafraid of the contradictions and second-guessing they imply", writes Edith Hall. https://bit.ly/3RWOnhp

Orator review – Cicero: A Roman tragedy

Cicero’s stratospheric rise to political power in the Republic was matched by his swift and violent fall, as Catharine Edwards details in her new biography, Orator

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Aristotle's Lyceum - Edith Hall Gresham College youtu.be/PM9dRkEgJx4?...

Aristotle's Lyceum - Edith Hall

YouTube video by Gresham College

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Went to Hatfield House with @rickypo.bsky.social. Found a tiny Aristotle, a complete unthumbed 1st ed. Delfin Classics and a Marchioness plus progeny who could not look more like my Platonic ideas of a ruling-class bracket-faced Englishwoman just off a horse & entitled but gormless Eton-destined son

Christopher Nolan has scuppered all my work schedules. Did Times Radio this morning, doing BBC World at One AND BBC Front Row (also on Simon Stone's Oresteia) tonight 1900. Radio Gaga. Beginning to regret I wrote this (free to download on my website edithhall.co.uk/books/)

Odyssey movie: fab special effects=consummate action movie obsessed with giants. Lacks moral clout: Nolan stuck in Oppenheimer (Odysseus delays homecoming as so guilty (!) after seeing suffering caused by wooden horse technofix). End Tennysonian-Odysseus (+Penny!) sails off "beyond the sunset" 4*