Edith Hall

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Edith Hall is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Durham University, University of Reading, King's College London, Royal Holloway, University of London

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According to Wikipedia, Edith Hall, is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2006 until 2011 she held a Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she founded and directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome until November 2011. She resigned over a dispute regarding funding for classics after leading a public campaign, which was successful, to prevent cuts to or the closure of the Royal Holloway Classics department. Until 2022, she was a professor at the Department of Classics at King's College London. She also co-founded and is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University, Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust, and Judge on the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. Her prizewinning doctoral thesis was awarded at Oxford. In 2012 she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize to study ancient Greek theatre in the Black Sea, and in 2014 she was elected to the Academy of Europe. She lives in Cambridgeshire.

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Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy (1989) (550)
Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with peritraumatic dissociation in medically injured children (2005) (195)
New Directions in Ancient Pantomime (2008) (114)
The Theatrical Cast Of Athens (2006) (103)
The sociology of Athenian tragedy (1997) (97)
LAWCOURT DRAMAS: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE IN GREEK FORENSIC ORATORY* (1995) (93)
Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession (2008) (89)
Greek Tragedy And The British Theatre, 1660-1914 (2005) (66)
Dionysus since 69: Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium (2004) (59)
Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun (2010) (58)
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey (2008) (53)
The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society (2006) (37)
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars (2007) (34)
Cultural responses to the Persian Wars : antiquity to the third millennium (2007) (30)
Gender, role and performer in Athenian theatre iconography: A masked tragic chorus with KALOS and KALE captions from Olbia (2014) (25)
Aeschylus’ Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein (2007) (24)
Sophocles and the Greek tragic tradition (2009) (23)
THE ARCHER SCENE IN ARISTOPHANES′THESMOPHORIAZUSAE (1989) (21)
Classical mythology in the Victorian popular theatre (1999) (20)
Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs (2007) (19)
Towards a Theory of Performance Reception (2004) (19)
Navigating the Realms of Gold: Translation as Access Route to the Classics (2008) (18)
Asia unmanned: Images of victory in classical Athens (2012) (17)
Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood (2011) (16)
Women classical scholars: unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (2016) (14)
Medea and British Legislation Before The First World War (1999) (13)
Ancient Slavery and Abolition (2011) (11)
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy (2012) (11)
Putting the Class into Classical Reception (2008) (9)
A People’s History of Classics (2020) (9)
Subjects, Selves, and Survivors (2007) (9)
Introduction: Pantomime, A Lost Chord of Ancient Culture (2008) (9)
Talfourd’s ancient Greeks in the theatre of reform (1997) (8)
Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction (2009) (8)
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (2019) (6)
Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra versus her Senecan Tradition (2007) (6)
AESOPIC CONVERSATIONS Popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose (2011) (6)
Is the ‘Barcelona Alcestis’ a Latin pantomime libretto? (2008) (6)
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (1994) (6)
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres: The Aesopic in Aristophanes (2013) (5)
Tony Harrison's Prometheus: A View from the Left (2002) (5)
Trojan Suffering, Tragic Gods, and Transhistorical Metaphysics (2008) (4)
Pantomime: Visualising Myth in the Roman Empire (2013) (4)
Advocating Classics Education – a new national project (2017) (4)
CHAPTER 2: BRITISH REFRACTIONS OF INDIA AND THE 1857 ‘MUTINY’ THROUGH THE PRISM OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (2010) (4)
From Translation to Performance Reception: The Death of the Author and the Performance Text (2010) (4)
The Suppliant Women (2001) (4)
To Fall from High or Low Estate? Tragedy and Social Class in Historical Perspective (2014) (3)
Aristotle's theory of katharsis in its historical and social contexts (2017) (3)
Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (2016) (3)
Peaceful Conflict Resolution and Its Discontents in Aeschylus’s Eumenides (2015) (3)
Ancient Pantomime and the Rise of Ballet (2008) (3)
Approaching Classical Reception through the Frame of Social Class (2020) (2)
Lawcourt Dramas: Acting and Performance in Legal Oratory (2006) (2)
Theatre in the Fourth-Century Black Sea Region (2014) (2)
The Scythian Archer in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (2006) (2)
Tony Harrison (2021) (2)
Torture and Truth (1993) (2)
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose of Tony Harrison (2017) (2)
Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen (1997) (2)
Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity (2011) (2)
Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti‐Slavery Debates of the 1790s (2011) (2)
Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries (2015) (2)
‘Master of Those Who Know’: Aristotle as Role Model for the Twenty-first Century Academician (2017) (2)
Motives and methods (2020) (1)
The validity of the JEPI for ESN children. (1969) (1)
The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope (2019) (1)
Oxford World's Classics: Sophocles: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra (2008) (1)
Perspectives on the impact of Bacchae at its original performance (2016) (1)
Classics for the People (2015) (1)
Singing Roles in Tragedy (2006) (1)
Comedy and Athenian festival culture (2014) (1)
Women Classical Scholars (2016) (1)
Why Is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema, 1963–2007 (2013) (1)
Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison’s Euripides (2019) (1)
Rhetorical Actors and Other Versatile Hellenistic Vocalists (2013) (1)
Play as Shared Psychological Register: Paidiá, Laughter and Aristophanes (2020) (1)
Horny Satyrs and Tragic Tetralogies (2006) (1)
India, Greece, and Rome, 1757 to 2007 (2010) (1)
Drowning Act: The Greeks, Swimming, and Timotheus' Persians (2006) (1)
Some Functions of Rhetorical Questions in Lysias’ Forensic Orations (2022) (1)
Childbearing Women: Birth and Family Crisis in Ancient Drama (2006) (1)
Visible Women: Painted Masks and Tragic Aesthetics (2006) (1)
Medea and the Mind of the Murderer (2017) (1)
Female Personifications of Poetry in Old Comedy (2006) (1)
Beyond The Limits of Art and War Trauma David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ (2019) (0)
Working-class readers (2020) (0)
Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes (2012) (0)
Ragged-trousered philologists (2020) (0)
Competitive Vocal Performance in Aristophanes’ Knights (2019) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2008) (0)
If it's fake, how many others are there? (1993) (0)
Classics amongst the miners (2020) (0)
Greek Theatre in the 1980s . By Thomas H. Gressler. North Carolina and London: McFarland & Co, 1989. Pp. xiii + 191 + illus. £28.45. (1990) (0)
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (2016) (0)
Review of Colm Tóibín, House of Names & Nat Haynes, Children of Jocasta, Telegraph May 13. (2017) (0)
M. Wyke, Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History . London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. x + 237, illus. ISBN 0-4159-0613-X (bound); 0-4159-0614-8 (paper). £45.00 (bound); £12.99 (paper). £12.99 (paper) (2004) (0)
‘Xenophon: Magician and Friend’, in Michael Flower (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon. CUP. (2016) (0)
Black Sea Back Story: Euripides’Medea (2019) (0)
C. Cuttica and G. Mahlverg (eds.) Patriarchal Moments (2016) (0)
Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage . By Carlo Fernando Russo. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xiv + 279. £40. (1996) (0)
Intellectual Pleasure and the Woman Translator in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century England (2016) (0)
Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge? (2018) (0)
Our fabled childhood: reflections on the unsuitability of Aesop for children (2016) (0)
Peisthetairos, Adventurer in Thrace: A New Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds (2016) (0)
An epic deconstruction (1994) (0)
Recent Work on Greek Tragedy (2009) (0)
Paving and Pencilling (2019) (0)
Iphigenia’s Imperial Escapades (2012) (0)
New Light on Tony Harrison (2019) (0)
Aristotle: Making of The Mind (2016) (0)
Class and the classical body (2020) (0)
Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. Essays in Honour of Pat Easterling (2009) (0)
The Theatrical Roles of Athens (2006) (0)
Working-class Classics via the visual environment (2020) (0)
Hephaestus the Hobbling Humorist: The Club-Footed God in the History of Early Greek Comedy (2019) (0)
Muse on Madison Avenue. Classical Mythology in Contemporary Advertising (Book) (2003) (0)
African Athena: New Agendas (2011) (0)
Barbarians in Greek Comedy (1987) (0)
Sinn Féin and Ulysses (2020) (0)
Constantine Cavafy: Poet of Modern Classicism (2015) (0)
Rowan Williams’s tragic mistake. How can Rowan Williams reconcile his Christianity with the Greek tragic vision (2016) (0)
Casting the Role of Trygaeus in Aristophanes’ Peace (2006) (0)
Citizens’ Classics for the 21 st Century (2015) (0)
How much did pottery workers know about classical art and civilisation? (2020) (0)
Review of Paul Cartledge’s Democracy: a Life (2016) (0)
Peace by Other Means:: Symposium on the Role of Ethnography and the Humanities in the Understanding, Prevention, and Resolution of Enmity Part 3 (2015) (0)
Adventures in the ancient library (2015) (0)
The invention of Classics and the emergence of class (2020) (0)
18th-century working-class poets (2020) (0)
Rites of Modernism (2012) (0)
The migrant muse: Greek drama as feminist window on American identity 1900- 1925 (2015) (0)
Eating Children Is Bad for You: The Offspring of the Past in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 1: MUGHAL PRINCES OR GREEK PHILOSOPHER‐KINGS? INDIAN AND NEOCLASSICAL STYLES IN BRITISH MANSIONS BUILT BY EAST INDIAMEN (2010) (0)
Review of J. Duban, The Lesbian Lyre, TLS Jan. 4. (2017) (0)
Visualising Euripides’ Tauric Temple of the Maiden Goddess (2019) (0)
Classics Invented: Books, Schools, Universities and Society 1679–1742 (2021) (0)
Goethe’s Iphigenie Between Germany and the World (2012) (0)
Aristocratic Women in Tragedy (1992) (0)
Late Victorian musical odysseys, scholarship, and translation (2019) (0)
Caractacus and Lloyd George’s recruiting drive in Wales (2020) (0)
Statuary and Classicism in Harrison’s The Loiners and Beyond (2018) (0)
Tony Harrison as Founder of Classical Reception Studies (2022) (0)
Recent work on Greek tragedy Aeschylus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Michael Lloyd (Ed.) Aeschylus : Seven against Thebes, Isabelle Torrance Euripides : Phoenician Women, Thalia Papadopoulou : book reviews (2009) (0)
Classics and class in Ireland (2020) (0)
‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’ (2020) (0)
The ancient Greeks: ten ways they shaped the modern world (2016) (0)
Chapter 1. Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries (2015) (0)
The Christian Conversion of Iphigenia (2012) (0)
Flower Gathering: Review of The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths By William Hansen (ed) (2017) (0)
American Communist Idealism in George Cram Cook’s The Athenian Women (1918) (2018) (0)
The Birth of Comedy: From sausage-sellers to suffragettes, questioning and puncturing our political leaders through satire has been essential for democracy ever since comedy was born in Ancient Greece, argues Edith Hall (2015) (0)
Staging class struggle classically (2020) (0)
Greek & Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession (2002) (0)
The Migrant Muse (2015) (0)
Greek theatre in the fourth-century Black Sea (2014) (0)
Scottish working Classics (2020) (0)
Classical Epic and the London Fairs, 1697–1734 (2018) (0)
Classics and class in life-writing (2020) (0)
Plots and Pots: The Fourth-century Popularity of Iphigenia in Tauris (2012) (0)
Ancient Women (1994) (0)
Marxist Interpretations of Greek Literature (1993) (0)
The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity (2015) (0)
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Ion, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliant Women (2001) (0)
Gender and performance on a fifth-century red-figure fragmentary Athenian vase from Olbia (2014) (0)
Euripides, Sparta and the Self-Definition of Athens (2018) (0)
Orestes, Pylades, and Roman Men (2012) (0)
Greek Theatre and Performance around the Ancient Black Sea (2019) (0)
Alice Crawford (ed.) The Meaning of the Library (2015) (0)
British Imperialist and/or Avatar of Welshness? (2020) (0)
Aristophanes’ Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace (2020) (0)
Classics in our ancestors’ communities (2018) (0)
Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Woman (1991) (0)
The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles' Theban Plays (2013) (0)
Socialist and communist scholars (2020) (0)
The Birth Of Comedy (2012) (0)
Tragic Myth as Medium of Social and Cultural History: Black Sea Artemis and the Cults of the Roman Empire (2013) (0)
The Hilarious Politics of the Supernatural in Aristophanic Comedy (2020) (0)
Epilogue:: Xenophon: Magician and Friend (2016) (0)
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain 1689-1939 (2019) (0)
(A.J.) Bowen Ed. Aeschylus. Suppliant Women . Oxford: Aris and Phillips, 2013. Pp. 374. £50. 9781908343789. (2016) (0)
The Bard of Beeston: Tony Harrison (2017) (0)
(K.V.) Hartigan Muse on Madison Avenue. Classical Mythology in Contemporary Advertising . (Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 127). Frankfurt: P. Lang, 2002. Pp. 158, ill. £20. 3631376529. (2003) (0)
Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus, 1789–1917 (2013) (0)
Crises of Self and Succession (2020) (0)
Iphigenia, Quest Heroine (2012) (0)
Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose Works of Tony Harrison (2017) (0)
Beneath the shadow of the Porta Nigra: Karl Marx and the ruins of Trier (2011) (0)
Women’s Adventures with Iphigenia (2012) (0)
2015 ‘Ancient Greek literature and western identity’, in M. Hose and D. Schenker (eds.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Greek Literature (2015) (0)

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