🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, Dr Rory McInnes-Gibbons and Prof. Edmund Thomas on the publication of 'Classical Encounters in England's North East'!
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In this month’s issue of @cotswoldlife.bsky.social
@katiejarvis.bsky.social talks to award-winning classicist Edith Hall who will be with us 4th May to discuss Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World. Tix online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Thrilled by cover design of forthcoming book from the research project. aristotlebeyond.co.uk. It will be published open access in November or December.
🗞️ Featured in this month’s issue of Cotswold Life. Katie Jarvis talks to award-winning classicist @edithmayhall.bsky.social
before her event next month, discussing her book Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World
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Contrary to expectation (I avoid Regency romances) I've fallen for The Other Bennet Sister. In Episode 7, Mr Collins tells Mary (they've both suffered from abysmal parenting) to read Aristotle on how happiness is something each of has has to do for ourself and gives her a copy of Nicomachean Ethics.
Gustave Moreau was born 200 years ago today. The glamour of his 'Hesiod and His Muse' never fails to amuse me; when I imagine Hesiod he's sweating grumpily over his plough
A conversation with @twhittermarsh.bsky.social re the poet Musaeus over the roast dinner I cooked yesterday reminded me I used to collect visuals for story of Leander, who swam the Hellespont to visit his girlfriend Hero. Here's my favourite, in 15th-century Dutch manuscript. The wimple!
Easter Monday egg. This precious drawing of a Berlin vase fragment destroyed in WW2 has Leda and the egg again, except this time baby Helen is visible in her albumen sac inside the eggshell.
Thomas Hobbes, born 5/4/1588, in his classist 1628 Thucydides translation of 1628) equates critics of the monarchy with Athenian demagogues. The frontispiece shows Thucydides clutching a scroll that reads "A POSSESSION FOR ALL TIME", dignified nobles (HOI ARISTOI) v. HOI POLLOI.
Happy Easter! It's not Easter Bunny bringing you an egg, but Dionysus, who has the daddy cock (or mummy hen--they can have red crests, too). Made in Boeotia c. 350BCE, now in the British Museum
Ancient egg for Easter--it's Leda again, worrying that the Zeus-eagle dad is about to peck the egg containing Helen open. In this one Clytemnestra (left) is an older sister waving hi. Granddad Tyndareus bemused. Made in Athens 440-430 BCE, Now in Boston.
Egg for Easter hols no. 3. Youth tries to woo maiden with great ear-rings (both in Nike trainers) with necklace, girdle and bigger, more ovate egg than the one she's balancing on her cowl-necked mantle, presumably bestowed by previous suitor. She doesn't look impressed. Naples Archaeological Museum
So pleased to have sent completed book Aristotle Beyond the Academy in Britain and Ireland 1660-1922 off to go into production at Routledge. Here's one of the images. He's influenced the constitution, suffrage debates, abolition, sex manuals, zoology, the chocolate industry....
Eggs of the day for Easter weekend! Pompeii fresco.
After weeks working so hard I've scarcely posted, I'm getting into Easter mood with some egg images. Here's Leda looking surprised at what she's laid, with dad Zeus and big brothers of the girls (Helen and Clytemnestra) inside the egg, Castor and Pollux. Made in Athens 450-400 BCE, now in Bern
Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me by Edith Hall | Issue 172 | Philosophy Now
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The Greatest Speech of all Time: Pericles' Funeral Oration
Gresham College | Edith Hall
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Edith Hall retells the story of The Iliad as a bronze age apocalypse caused by overextraction #TheAncients
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Screenshot from the article: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/aristotle-edith-hall/ excerpting “We know that he spent … guides to the good.” highlighting “Aristotle was remarkable … principles from them.”
Aristotle as the originator of spreadsheets.
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🤩 Congratulations to our Classics researchers on winning the Outstanding Team Quality Award- Learner Facing at the annual national Outstanding Achievement Awards.
👉 The team, led by Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, won the award for the project they have delivered in prisons.
Edith Hall, "Classics for the people" aeon.co/essays/why-w...
Returning to this piece.
Published today! Local history meets Classical Reception! For my part, fruit of collecting stuff in the best part of England since 2001! @durhamclassics.bsky.social
Very honoured to receive an Honorary Fellowship alongside these luminary fellow-alumni from Wadham College, Oxford wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/we-welc...
Great write-up by John Green for "seminal" Hall & Stead, "A People's History of Classics" (download free from edithhall.co.uk) in Morning Star, in the course of reproving the author of a book who should've read our work, but hasn't. I used to sell Morning Star in the 1980s
Today!
Last October I jeopardised my hard-earned reputation for a lifetime of dissipation by starting to go to the gym after a near-fatal fall. Just to reassure my friends that some things don’t change, here’s my favourite gym kit. And I still drink lots of wine to recover from workouts
What a great time I had picking up the International Hellenic Prize, awarded by Matthew Lodge, the British Ambassador to Greece, on Saturday. Surprise reunion with old RHUL comrade Chris Kremmydas was particularly gratifying.
After brutality at Istanbul Airport (Turkish Airlines) followed by far worse at Paris Charles de Gaulle (Easyjet) this month, a joy to be flown on time with charm by Aegean Airlines to a queue-free passport experience in Athens & this bouquet my hosts had ordered to my hotel room
I just love the illustrations to the Sirens chapter in James Joyce’s ULYSSES by Richard Hamilton, born 24 February 1922. The Sirens’ eyes are distinctly bird like
Image shows the invitation to the award ceremony starting at 7pm in Cotsen Hall, American School of Classical Studies in Athens. It also shows the links for in-person and online attendance via Zoom, as available on the IHP website.
If you're interested in attending the IHP award ceremony in Athens on Feb 28th for this year's prizewinner
@edithmayhall.bsky.social, please visit our website to register to attend in person or online - this is not an event to miss!
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