Edith Hall

Edith Hall (sündinud 4. märtsil 1959 Birminghamis) on Suurbritannia klassikaline filoloog.

Edith Hall lõpetas Oxfordi Ülikooli Wadham College'i klassikalise filoloogia alal 1982. aastal. Doktorikraadi sai ta Oxfordi Ülikooli St Hugh's College'ist 1988. aastal. Tema doktoriväitekiri pälvis Hellenic Foundationi auhinna.^[1]

Aastail 1990–1995 oli ta õppejõud Readingi Ülikoolis, seejärel suundus Oxfordi, kus oli fellow Somerville College'is. Seal rajas ta 1996. aastal koos Oliver Tapliniga interdistsiplinaarse Kreeka ja Rooma draamaetenduste arhiivi (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama).

Aastail 2001–2006 oli ta Durhami Ülikooli Leverhulme'i kreeka kultuuriloo professor, seejärel professor Londoni Ülikooli Royal Holloway kolledžis, kus ta muu hulgas asutas Kreeka ja Rooma Retseptsiooni Keskuse (Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome). Aastast 2012 oli ta Londoni King's College'i professor, aastast 2022 on Durhami ülikooli professor.

2014. aastal valiti ta Academia Europaea liikmeks, 2022. aastal Briti Akadeemia liikmeks.

• "Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy" (1989)
• "Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra" (1994)
• "Aeschylus' Persians: Edited with Translation and Commentary" (1996)
• "Medea in Performance" (2000)
• "Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium" (2004)
• "Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914" (2005, koos Fiona Macintoshiga)
• "The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama & Society" (2006)
• "Agamemnon in Performance" (2007)
• "Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars" (2007, koos Emma Bridgesi ja P. J. Rhodes'iga)
• "Aristophanes in Performance" (2007)
• "The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey" (2007)
• "New Directions in Ancient Pantomime" (2008, koos Rosie Wylesiga)
• "Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition" (2009, koos Simon Goldhilliga)
• "Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun" (2010)
• "Theorising Performance" (2010)
• "Reading Ancient Slavery" (2010)
• "India, Greece and Rome 1757–2007" (2010)
• "Ancient Slavery and Abolition" (2011)
• "Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy" (2013)
• "Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind" (2014)
• "Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly" (2016, koos Rosie Wylesiga)
• "Aristotle's Way: How ancient wisdom can change your life" (2018, 2020, )
• "A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity" (2020, koos Henry Steadiga)
• "Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism" (2021)
• "Aeschylus' Agamemnon: edited with Translation, Introduction and Commentary" (2024)
• "Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me" (2024)
• "Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World" (2025)
• "A Very Short Introduction to Sophocles" (2025)
• "Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education" (2025, koos Arlene Holmes-Hendersoniga)
• "Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature" (2025, toimetanud koos Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlhaga)

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