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Twenty First Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2006

SURVIVAL

Lecture 2   :   27 January

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

Edith Hall

Durham University

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Biography

Edith Hall has taught Greek cultural history and its reception at Cambridge, Reading and Oxford Universities and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford. Since 2001 she has been Leverhulme Professor in the Classics Department at Durham, but will be moving to Royal Holloway, University of London, later this year. Her books include "Inventing the Barbarian" (OUP 1989), an edition of Aeschylus' "Persians" (1996), "Greek and Roman Actors" (CUP 2002, co-edited with Pat Easterling), and "Greek Tragedy and the British Stage 1660-1914" (OUP 2005, co-authored with Fiona Macintosh). She is currently finishing a book on the recent impact of the Homeric "Odyssey".

The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you must arrive early to ensure a place.