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Sunday, 1 June 2025

Teaching Ancient Ethics in English Prisons: An Update

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  Tonight I’m driving with my colleague in all things, Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson , to teach for a week in a prison, our PhD student ...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Review of Dan Mendelsohn's Translation of the ODYSSEY

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  Homer’s Odyssey is the most familiar work of ancient literature besides Aesop’s Fables. It has been translated into most world languages a...
Saturday, 12 April 2025

Preserving Democracy & Resisting Tyranny with Aristotle

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Friends, especially Americans, and people I’ve encountered recently are all asking the same question: when democracy, free speech, truthful ...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

Location Filming on Women Gladiators

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  A few weeks ago, Barney Rowe , a brilliant young TV producer specializing in factual history, asked if I could join his team at Tomos TV w...
Sunday, 26 January 2025

My Telegraph article on Gladiators in Britain

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  The brutal reality of gladiators in Roman Britain Headless skeletons, feral bears and female fighters – a new British Museum show revolu...
Friday, 13 December 2024

A Week in Classics: Progress, Celebration and Grief

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What a week that was. Forgetting that my surgeon told me last year I had to slow down, on Tuesday we wound up our pilot course, attached to ...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

Classics, Class and ‘Class. Civ.’ Qualifications in the 21st Century

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  On Thursday I was excited to deliver the inaugurating lecture of the new Leeds University Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception...
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Edith Hall
Durham University Classics Prof./cultural historian keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, Parthenon reunification.
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