Event overview
Edith Hall has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and the University of London, and is currently Professor of Classics at King's College London. She has published twenty books, including Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (1989), and The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey (2008). She is Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chairman of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She appears regularly on BBC Radio, and has acted as consultant to professional productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies. Her research interests include ancient Greek social and intellectual history, ancient Greek literature, ancient Greek and Roman performance culture, tragedy and comedy; ethnicity, gender, and class; the reception of ancient Greece and Rome.
Edith received a major research grant from the AHRC for her research project (to be launched in 2013): ‘Classics and Class in Britain 1789-1917'. Her lecture in the Richard Hoggart Lectures in Literature series is 'Putting class back into the History of Greek And Latin Classics'.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Dec 2012 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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