Edith Hall
Edith Hall (* 1959 ) is a British classical philologist .
Life
Edith Hall studied at Wadham College of Oxford University (BA 1982), then at St Hugh's College and received her Ph.D. in 1988 After positions at the universities of Reading (1990–1995 Lecturer), Oxford (1995–2001 Lecturer), Durham (2001–2006 Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History) and Royal Holloway, University of London (2006–2012 Research Professor in Classics, English & Drama) Hall has been teaching at King's College London since 2012 . She lives in Gloucestershire .
Her research focus is on the ancient Greek literary and cultural history. Her work also focuses on ancient Greek social and intellectual history, ancient Greek and Roman performance practice, Greek tragedy and comedy , ethnicity, gender and the reception of antiquity, the question of how later epochs were shaped and influenced by ancient cultures.
She has received several awards for her work. In addition to several visiting professorships, Hall is a sought-after expert on radio, television and theater. For example, she advised theater productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Vienna- based theater combine.
Awards
- Prize from the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, 1988
- Humboldt Research Award , 2012
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens , 2012
- full member of Academia Europaea , 2013
- Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea, 2015 (as the first woman)
- Honorary Citizen of Palermo , 2019
Publications (selection)
- Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun , Oxford 2010
- Theorising Performance , Duckworth 2010
- Reading Ancient Slavery , Bloomsbury 2010
- India, Greece and Rome 1757-2007 , Institute of Classical Studies 2010
- Ancient Slavery and Abolition , Oxford 2011
- Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy , Oxford 2013
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind , WW Norton, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-23998-0
- German: The ancient Greeks. A success story in ten appearances , Siedler Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0092-2
Web links
- Edith Hall on the site of King's College (English)
- Website of Edith Hall (English)
- Blog of Edith Hall (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Hall. In: www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
- ^ Membership directory: Edith Hall. Academia Europaea, accessed November 9, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hall, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Classical Philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |