Edith Hall (1) (1959–)
Author of Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
About the Author
Edith Hall is a research professor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London
Image credit: Edith Hall
Works by Edith Hall
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind (2014) 216 copies, 2 reviews
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (2020) 25 copies
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy (Onassis Series in Hellenic… (2013) 10 copies, 1 review
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Classical Presences) (2016) 8 copies
Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (Classical Presences) (2011) — Editor — 6 copies
Associated Works
Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture (Classical Presences) (2008) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (2010) — Contributor — 10 copies
Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy (2011) — Contributor — 10 copies
Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (2018) — Contributor — 5 copies
Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (Latin Edition) (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies
Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies
Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts (Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought) (2015) — Contributor — 4 copies
Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies
Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics 430-380 BC (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies
Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Classical Presences) (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies
Unbinding Medea : interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century (2010) — Contributor — 2 copies
Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2020) — Contributor — 2 copies
Arethusa (vol 25 no 1): Reconsidering Ovid's Fasti — Contributor — 2 copies
Classical reception and children's literature : Greece, Rome and childhood transformation (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy
Disability Studies and the Classical Body: The Forgotten Other (Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities) (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy
Ancient Greek Comedy: Genre – Texts – Reception (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 101) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 74) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1959
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Education
- Oxford University (Wadham College ∙ BA ∙ Classics & Modern languages ∙ 1982)
Oxford University (St Hugh's College ∙ D Phil ∙ 1988) - Occupations
- university professor
- Organizations
- Royal Holloway University
Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama
King's College London - Awards and honors
- Academy of Europe (2014)
Humboldt Research Award (2012) - Short biography
- Edith Hall is a British scholar of classics, specializing in ancient Greek literature and cultural history. She is a professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. Previously, she held a chair at Royal Holloway, University of London. She also co-founded and is consultant director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University. In 2012, she was awarded a Humboldt Research Award to study ancient Greek theater in the Black Sea area.
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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your… by Edith Hall
So I went backward. I read what books on the ancient world I could find, as they there what I had. I learned but it was disjointed and understanding came in fits and starts.
Then I read this book.
The tone and voice is perfect. It is not and does not claim to be the ultimate book on the subject. It's a very good and effective introduction. It's written well and introduces what you need to know to continue study.
More over it sets you up for further study. The opening information includes two detailed maps and a timeline for reference. At the end each chapter has it's own list of references to pick up if a topic caught your eye and you want to know more.
But the brilliance that most impressed me is the habit of connecting and explaining events and populations. This is a vibrant, interactive and dynamic world. It's alive and active and passionate. And she is somehow able to bring that off the page.
This is how an introduction book is written.… (more)
Then I read this book.
The tone and voice is perfect. It is not and does not claim to be the ultimate book on the subject. It's a very good and effective introduction. It's written well and introduces what you need to know to continue study.
More over it sets you up for further study. The opening information includes two detailed maps and a timeline for reference. At the end each chapter has it's own list of references to pick up if a topic caught your eye and you want to know more.
But the brilliance that most impressed me is the habit of connecting and explaining events and populations. This is a vibrant, interactive and dynamic world. It's alive and active and passionate. And she is somehow able to bring that off the page.
This is how an introduction book is written.… (more)
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anthrosercher | 1 other review | Jul 11, 2021 |
anthrosercher | 1 other review | Jul 11, 2021 | 
This is a discussion, in modern language, of Aristotle's teachings for leading the good life. The author discusses mostly ethics, and discusses ethical problems from her own life, linking them to the ancient works. She also provides a biography of the philosopher, as she discusses various stages in his thought. The chapters each discuss a different aspect of living the good life, achieving one's potential, making decisions, acquiring self knowledge, and living in the community. The argument and prose flow well, but did not seem to promote the thought or critical reflection needed to understand the subject. I have read the Nichomachean Ethics, and seemed to engage more with the original arguments.… (more)
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