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
Beat the winter blues #5: find a consenting companion, festoon yourselves with ivy and swap providing-an-elevated-seat and providing-the-musical-accompaniment services on a brisk dance to the off-licence.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Beat the winter blues #5: find a consenting companion, festoon yourselves with ivy and swap providing-an-elevated-seat and providing-the-musical-accompaniment services on a brisk dance to the off-licence.
Beat November/December Blues with fun in the Greek sun #4: senior citizens like me can learn to play the cithara, sing a little ditty, and GET IN FORMATION. I can't believe Bluesky is censoring this
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Beat November/December Blues with fun in the Greek sun #4: senior citizens like me can learn to play the cithara, sing a little ditty, and GET IN FORMATION. I can't believe Bluesky is censoring this
Beating November Blues #3: pretend to be Hera getting married to Zeus at a festival, and bribe a friendly serious-faced satyr to wear a splendid crown and protect your lovely coiffure from the elements with an umbrella-cum-parasol.
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Beating November Blues #3: pretend to be Hera getting married to Zeus at a festival, and bribe a friendly serious-faced satyr to wear a splendid crown and protect your lovely coiffure from the elements with an umbrella-cum-parasol.
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Beating the November / Blues Fun in Greek Sun suggestion #2: hold an impromptu party and a wine bowl balancing competition. Cup by Douris, circa 490 BCE
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Beating the November / Blues Fun in Greek Sun suggestion #2: hold an impromptu party and a wine bowl balancing competition. Cup by Douris, circa 490 BCE
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I don’t believe I have ever seen anyone post about this one. If you’ve read it, what did you think?
#Booksky
#haveyoureadthis
#Booksky
#haveyoureadthis
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I don’t believe I have ever seen anyone post about this one. If you’ve read it, what did you think?
#Booksky
#haveyoureadthis
#Booksky
#haveyoureadthis
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Physics: its birth in Greek Ionia | Professor Edith Hall
Gresham College
www.youtube.com/live/iQG141E...
Gresham College
www.youtube.com/live/iQG141E...
Physics: its birth in Greek Ionia
YouTube video by Gresham College
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November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Physics: its birth in Greek Ionia | Professor Edith Hall
Gresham College
www.youtube.com/live/iQG141E...
Gresham College
www.youtube.com/live/iQG141E...
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I hate November so much I'm going to cheer myself up with a new series of some of my favourite ancient Greek pots depicting ways to have fun in the sun: #1: Donkey ride. Athenian cup by Epictetus c. 510 BCE
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I hate November so much I'm going to cheer myself up with a new series of some of my favourite ancient Greek pots depicting ways to have fun in the sun: #1: Donkey ride. Athenian cup by Epictetus c. 510 BCE
Thespian friends! This day in 534 BCE is traditionally held to have seen the premiere of the first ever theatre performance by Thespis of Icaria, who took his cart of masks round the villages of Attica to impersonate mythical figures in marketplaces.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Thespian friends! This day in 534 BCE is traditionally held to have seen the premiere of the first ever theatre performance by Thespis of Icaria, who took his cart of masks round the villages of Attica to impersonate mythical figures in marketplaces.
On #UnescoWorldChildrensDay just a lovely mosaic from Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 4th century EC. Boys, birds, bushes and a chirpy caterpillar. Lovely.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
On #UnescoWorldChildrensDay just a lovely mosaic from Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 4th century EC. Boys, birds, bushes and a chirpy caterpillar. Lovely.
Comrades! This is how to explain the Greek dramatic chorus, performed as part of military training of youth. THRILLING. Dance and Drill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI93...
Māori All Blacks perform their haka against Ireland
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November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Comrades! This is how to explain the Greek dramatic chorus, performed as part of military training of youth. THRILLING. Dance and Drill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI93...
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.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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.
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🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who, along with Prof. Alison Sharrock, has published a special collection of 'Green Letters' on 'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics'
🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8
🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who, along with Prof. Alison Sharrock, has published a special collection of 'Green Letters' on 'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics'
🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8
🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8
On world drum day, here are two lovely ancient ladies banging a tympanon (frame-drum).
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On world drum day, here are two lovely ancient ladies banging a tympanon (frame-drum).
On this day in 332 BCE Alexander of Macedon was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt. Time for a granite statue now in Liebieghaus museum, Frankfurt and a copper alloy bust now in the Met, New York
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On this day in 332 BCE Alexander of Macedon was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt. Time for a granite statue now in Liebieghaus museum, Frankfurt and a copper alloy bust now in the Met, New York
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Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social, from our Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded the 2024 International Hellenic Prize for her acclaimed book Facing Down the Furies. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social
#TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social, from our Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded the 2024 International Hellenic Prize for her acclaimed book Facing Down the Furies. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social
#TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social
Interested in what Euripides' Bacchae has to say to modern psychoanalysts? Attend a hybrid event on January 31st with me, a theatre-maker and a psychoanalyst. Free for secondary school students. psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Interested in what Euripides' Bacchae has to say to modern psychoanalysts? Attend a hybrid event on January 31st with me, a theatre-maker and a psychoanalyst. Free for secondary school students. psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...
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