@edithmayhall.bsky.social
Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialOn UN #InternationalDayOfTheGirldChild a gorgeous Athenian depiction of a dancing lesson. Both children have the word KALE (beautiful in feminine declension) inscribed; the youth (a big brother?) has KALOS. The directive teacher looks like my least loathed PE instructress c. 1970. Now British Museum
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialYes! Total mistake. I just tweet too fast sometimes!
@aithpodcast.bsky.socialReposted by @edithmayhall.bsky.socialHate to be a Reply Guy, but was Zeus not in the form of a swan, pretending to be fleeing from an eagle?
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialThis morning and online for £5
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialAfter 30 minutes. I dislike being inconvenienced by a man of zero integrity
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialImagine my delight to find a new mural of Aristotle, and in the cafe down the road from his birthplace Stagira!
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialLadies and Gentlemen, it gives me great joy to announce that the Ancient Greeks had garden gnomes, as we do in our garden. Athens Archaeological Museum.
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialSo great to revisit Chalcis/Chalkida where Aristotle died after being driven out of Athens and not doing Socrates’ virtue-signalling martyr-complex thing with the hemlock and thinking about his family instead. This statue was funded by local organisations and proudly names HIS MOTHER as native
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialMosaic peacocks and a stunning head of Ares which I’ve just seen in Chalkida Archaeological Museum
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialGood question! To be determined!
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialWhen you accidentally end up in same Athens hotel as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and armed police won’t let you enter
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialAlways love a visit to the astonishing Acropolis Museum. With some Americans horrified by Elgin’s actions and continuing cloth-eared Beitish Retention @bcrpm.bsky.social
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialNorth-Eastern friends! What you doing Saturday morning? Also available online for those not fortunate enough to live in The Land of Three Rivers
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialOn #WorldAnimalDay I was going to talk about Aristotle as founder of Zoology but got waylaid by this Orpheus mosaic from Edessa. Those lovely birds are almost audibly singing along
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialOn #BookshopDay2026, a rather charming reconstruction of the shop of a Roman bookseller (bibliopola = βιβλιοπώλης). According to Martial, there many such shops (as well as cobblers!) on the Argiletum, the street that took you into the forum from the Subura, Rome’s crowded slum district.
@kateweb.bsky.socialReposted by @edithmayhall.bsky.socialAnd - fascinatingly - that women were more oppressed in classical Athens than pretty much anywhere else in ancient Greece. According to Professor Edith Hall, who also has a LOT to say about classical women's experience of everyday life and religious experience.
@ordofibonacci.bsky.socialReposted by @edithmayhall.bsky.socialThe Greatest Speech of all Time: Pericles' Funeral Oration - Edith Hall
Gresham College
youtu.be/NzpRgD4H8V4?...
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialOn #InternationalDayOfNonViolence here's an 18th-century print depicting a personification of Eirene/Pax/Peace by one George Thompson. I love the birdies on the branch--can hear their tweeting and the lambs bleating. You're welcome!
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialKilling two birds with one vase on #InternationalMusicDay and #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons. An elderly lyre teacher instructs his pupil, with the more difficult cithara hanging on the wall for more advanced lessons if he improves. Vase made in Athens c. 470 BCE. Now in Berlin.
@edithmayhall.bsky.socialLadies plotting to reunify the Parthenon sculptures last night at a Greek restaurant, hosted by the legendary Marlen Godwin. With Nat Haynes and Janet Suzman. Our cause will prevail! @
