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Welcome to Edith's new website. She is still uploading information and will continue do so for several more weeks. For her weekly blog, posted on Sundays, please click here.

During May 2012, Edith is doing several radio programmes, including a documentary presented by David Aaronovitch, 'Things ain't what they used to be' (BBC Radio 4), 'In Our Time' with Melvyn Bragg on the Trojan War (May 31st) and as commentator on the BBC Word Service.

Edith has just begun a new job as Professor of Classics at King's College London. For an article in The Observer newspaper about Edith's reason for leaving Royal Holloway, her previous employer, please click here.

For her review of David Mattingly's book on Roman imperialism in History Today, click here.

In the depths of November 2011 Edith was after-dinner speaker at the Durham University Saturnalia dinner, seen here with the Head of Department Professor George Boys-Stones, who is manfully attempting to stop her drinking too much claret before she performs a comedy routine, 'The five funniest things that have ever happened in Classics'.

Professor of Classics at King's College London. She recently campaigned with great success at the institution where she was previously employed, Royal Holloway University of London, to save the Classics Department from closure!
Supervisor of Research Students (currently eleven, full-and part-time), in subjects which have ranged from Senecan drama to images of Xerxes, Julius Caesar in drama, & contemporary English translations of ancient poetry.
In 2011-2012 Edith is a current Fellow of the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington, which has sponsored research she is conducting with Prof. Sara Monoson (Northwestern University) on the topic 'Classics and Industry'. They will be furthering this project together at the CHS Center in Washington in March and April 2012.
Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford University.
Academic Consultant to the Center for Theatre Practices Gardzienice.
Judge, The Times/Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation.
Chair, The Gilbert Murray Trust.

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Edith Hall is a London University Academic who specialises in putting pleasure into the history, literature, theatre, myth and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome and their continuing impact in the modern world.

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