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*

Waiting to be let into BFI IMAX for journalists’ screening of Odyssey movie. I’ll opine later!

So this time the culprit book that got me detained at Edinburgh airport security was once again an Aristotle Loeb. This despite the signal on my new baseball cap that security staff should expect to find this author about my person

Christopher Anaforian passed his St Andrews PhD viva, which I examined, with flying colours yesterday. On US leftist mobilisations of classical authors, brilliantly supervised by my old comrade Henry Stead.

It's #InternationalJokeDay: In Euripides' darkest play, Trojan Women, when Hecuba begs Menelaus not to take Helen back on the same ship (in case she seduces him & escapes punishment), he just asks laconically (he's Laconian): "Why? Has she put on weight?" An obese Helen of Troy would sink the ship!

Aristotle beyond the Academy #2: A Punch cartoon (1912) illustrating the tradition that Alexander wrote about/sent to Aristotle the flora/fauna of India (Pliny NH 8.17.44), on the public radar after D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's 1910 edition of Aristotle's "History of Animals"

Great to hear Tony's pretentious essay being gently demolished - as an example of the form, rather than for its content - by Michael Rosen and Classics Professor Edith Hall on BBC's Broadcasting House programme. Though in the process Michael manages to make clear his view of the content 😀

Aê. Hora de atualizar meu currículo. Lançamento da Martins Fontes -- Selo Martins em junho é um livro de Edith Hall traduzido por mim. "O caminho de Aristóteles" é uma espécie de guia para alcançar ativamente a felicidade do ponto de vista aristotélico.

Brexit, the Roman Empire, and Shakespeare's Cymbeline Edith Hall youtu.be/68lR9HdcIDo?...

Brexit, the Roman Empire, and Shakespeare's Cymbeline

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🇫🇷 For our followers in France... ⚔️ Prof. Edith Hall has contributed an expert interview to a new documentary on the Odyssey. 🔗 See the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQ0...

"Aristotle beyond the Academy in Britain & Ireland" will be published this autumn open access (Routledge). I'm posting some of its best images in a series from today. Here's Theophilus Dorrington's "The Excellent Woman", who excels in Virtue Ethics (1692) @profarlenehh.bsky.social

On #WorldSnorkellingDay, an air-bag deployed on a Neo-Assyrian gypsum wall panel relief, c. 865BCE, from Nimrud North West Palace. Now in British Museum. I love the fish swimming along in the same direction.

Our 25-y.o. has been stuck overnight in a tiny room at Erfurt airport with a planeful of @jet2 passengers trying to fly Preveza-Luton with hardly any food/water after emergency landing. STILL no clarity on when they will be flown back to England, or to which airport. @rickypo.bsky.social

Online book Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ #BlackSea Tragedy by @edithmayhall.bsky.social spartokos.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/a...

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy

Hall, E. (2012) : Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy, Oxford. Une étude de la réception à travers les siècles d’une pièce majeure d&…

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Made it to the Thesprotian Oracle of the Dead today. No sign of Tiresias, Charon etc. Not telling you what other ghosts I raised. As you age the numbers of beloved residents of Hades accumulate

Amazing conference on Aristotle’s literary references and influences in full flow at @durhamclassics.bsky.social

It's #InfantFeedingDay AND #YoYoDay, so here are a Roman baby feeding bottle in British Museum with a comic actor's mask to cheer up a weary parent at 3 am, and an Athenian ceramic in Berlin showing a youth concentrating hard as he plies a yo-yo. Some things don't change.

27th anniversary. Wheatley Registry Office at 22 weeks pregnant @rickypo.bsky.social

27th anniversary. Was 21 weeks pregnant.

The glorious @nataliehaynes.bsky.social wants you to know more about Sappho this #Pride month, and you do too, right? Here you go - the Queen on the Queen with me & @edithmayhall.bsky.social in attendance.

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! I’m celebrating by reading some Sappho. Our special Sappho episode with guests @stellduffy.bsky.social, @edithmayhall.bsky.social, and LiTTLe MACHiNe, is available to listen to on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Magdalena Zira and I, who sat for the portrait on the right in 500 BCE, are thrilled by the cover of our book forthcoming in September, including image by the incomparable Yiorgos Tsangaris. Thanks to all involved.

Oxford friends! I tried to write a factual docudrama biography of Medea, having visited all the sites where she lived and murdered, and will be talking about it on a Saturday morning next autumn in a bookshop near you. Please come!

@edithmayhall.bsky.social Hey Edith, your books are part of a Cardiff University library collection that is in danger of being removed to build 4 classrooms, could I please ask for a RT of the petition to help us raise awareness. Thanks for any help you can give.

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A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books (including an amazing Welsh collection.) Please help us spread the word. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Short film made with huge help of @rickypo.bsky.social explaining how @durhamclassics.bsky.social Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History staff are teaching Aristotle's ethics and rhetoric in prisons and how you can help youtu.be/6NTOwGltj1g?...

Teaching Aristotle in Prisons

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A reminder that the deadline for submitting a PhD thesis to our 2026 Durham Prize in Classical Reception competition is 30th June! @durhamclassics.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Having a good time in Leiden. Last night spoke on "toxic masculinity" to lovely undergraduate event; today lecture to Forum Antiquum on ghosts and revenants in Greek tragedy, including Darius, Clytemnestra, Protesilaus and Aeetes.

Honoured to have spoken alongside the love of Tony's life Siani Thomas and the Mayor of Manchester.at Saltaire on Sunday at the memorial for poet and friend Tony Harrison. The event was magnificently compered by Barrie Rutter,

Greek friends! A friend just sent me this--can you decode what is going on for me, please? It's in Psiri not Exarchia

Exhilarated after convening with Emma Bentley a fascinating conference on ecology & ancient drama/performance at @durhamclassics.bsky.social Special thanks to @ae_stallings for dazzling recital and everyone else!