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Sunday, 24 April 2016

What's Hecuba really to Hamlet?

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What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba , That he should weep for her? Shakespeare's Ovid The 400 th anniversary of Shakespea...
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Saturday, 16 April 2016

Report from Lesbos

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Menander Mosaic in Mytilini Museum As the Pope flies into Lesbos (now Lesvos), I report on my own stay there last week. I was apprehen...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

Aristotle's Attempt to Pursue Happiness

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I've always had a problem with the way Aristotle’s thought is taught. At my uni in 1981 all his historical context, natural scienc...
Saturday, 2 April 2016

Heaney and Fergal's Aeneid

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Teenage Signature inside Mackail's AENEID The publication of Seamus Heaney’s translation of the sixth book of Vergil’s Aeneid coin...
Sunday, 27 March 2016

An Odyssey without the Darkness

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Happy World Theatre Day, celebrated on March 27, which this year coincides with Western Easter.  At this time of year, when the sailin...
Friday, 18 March 2016

HOW MUCH OF TRUMP'S DNA IS NEANDERTHAL?

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Reconstruction of Homo Neanderthalensis Having over the years suffered three bad bouts of depression, the worst of which was postnatal...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

Open Classics on Pots and Online

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With Head of  Classics Prof  Hugh Bowden at King's "Oscars" An exciting week for my project Classics and Class   (nomina...
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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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