Edith Hall

Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 5d

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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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7d

What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? The fantastic @edithmayhall.bsky.social now giving another historical view

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 7d

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 @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 18d

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

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 19d

Edith Hall on Tony Harrison, eight years ago:
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

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 19d

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?

timeout.com

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 19d

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 26d

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 16

Damn! My secret is out!

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · Sep 16

📣 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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

www.thecockpit.org.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 15

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...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 14

My daughter has just found this in Istanbul

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 24

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 24

#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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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