Classics Prof doing Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. @edithmayhall.bsky.social
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Partly inspired by Albert Camus' insistence that we must imagine Sisyphus happy and embrace rather than evade life's absolute, risible incomprehensibility, my new motto and emblem, "In Absurdity, Laughter"
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I've spent this week in Manchester with @ProfArleneHH (left) training these wonderful prison educators to teach Aristotle's recipes for becoming the best and happiest version of yourself. So unbelievably rewarding. Thanks, Alice, Suzanne, Zoe, Caroline, Rebecca and Jilly!
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My obituary for Pat Easterling now online
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Théodore Chassériau was born 20/9/1819. Many of his paintings use classical heroines simply to allow gawping at naked mammary glands, but I do like his patriotic illustrations of Vercingetorix's (unsuccessful) rising against Julius Caesar better known through "Asterix the Gaul"
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My mum Brenda Hall would have been 101 today. I hope she's having a good time where'er she be.
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Aristotle's night on the tiles. These 18th-century azulejos (tin glazed ceramic tiles) at the University of Évora, Portugal, show Dante's Aristotle, ‘the master of those who know’, gazed on with reverence by all the other great thinkers—Plato, Socrates, Thales etc (Inferno 4).
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Anybody in the Ely area--I'd be thrilled to see you tonight at the first public discussion of my new book on Medea toppingbooks.co.uk/events/el…
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What's so good about the great vase-painter Amasis' depiction of Athena (with Poseidon and Hermes before their competition) is the massive owl STARING STRAIGHT AT YOU from her shield. Don't forget she's wiser than the sea-god. Athenian, now in Louvre.
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In 10 minutes I'm talking on BBC World Service about gods from the machine bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/b…
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Great review here. Even if the author's grasp of ancient Greek spelling is a little ropey, she gets the legal issues raised by Medea
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We're spoilt for classical choice on Anselm Feurbach's birthday (12/9/1829).This dark landscape inspired ch. 3 of my new book Medea: A Life, when she must flee, with her nurse & Jason, from the Mt Pelion coast of Thessaly after boiling Pelias. They had to hire a new amateur crew.
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On #InternationalCloudAppreciationDay, noone has ever appreciated clouds as much as Alcmena, saved from the pyre by Zeus' instructions to the water-nymphs (Hyades) in the clouds to precipitate immediately & extinguish the flames. Bell krater made by south Italian Greeks now in BM
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John Soane, son of a humble bricklayer, born 10/09/1753, rose to become a top architect. His wonderful 'Tivoli Corner' at the Bank of England (1805/6, left), inspired by the Tivoli Temple of Vesta (bottom right), was wrecked when its top level was removed in 1833 (top right-now).
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I'm excited to share that I'm now posting on Reels and TikToks! I'm doing a mini lecture series on Medea now my book Medea: A Life is out instagram.com/edithhall148?s…
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It's apparently #InternationalWineBoxDay. Personally, boxes never seem to provide the quality provided by bottles. If it's volume you want, try an amphora, which can be creatively be used for other purposes once you've glugged the lot.
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Blog on my new book, rather different from anything I've done before. edithorial.blogspot.com/2026…
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The tragic story of MEDEA by Edith Hall is reviewed by Fairer Disputations. "The story Hall has assembled from the pastiche of ancient sources is gripping, reading like a good novel."—Nadya Williams
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On #InternationalDayofCleanAirforBlueSkies, here's Karl Friedrich Schinkel's "Ouranos and the Dance of the Stars" (1834). I love the little twinkly head-dresses and general revelry. He was more famous as an architect and stage designer, and this is distinctly theatrical
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