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Renowned Classicist Edith Hall’s latest book, Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World, looks at the Iliad through the lens of climate change. She discusses this, her work on Greek tragedy and her recent memoir, Facing Down The Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me, which intertwines autobiography and philosophy with close readings of ancient Greek tragedy and myth.
On Epic of the Earth: ‘In this timely book, Hall reminds us that the violence of war is made possible by the violation and exploitation of nature. She shows us how to read the Iliad more urgently and face our relationships with the earth and each other with more wisdom.’ (A. E. Stallings)
Edith Hall will be in conversation with eminent Greek-British cultural critic and social psychologist, Yiannis Gabriel, author of the newly published Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World. Using ten ancient myths as his points of departure for creative re-interpretation, Yiannis Gabriel invites readers to think mythologically, and to examine what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our times.
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation, chaired by writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods.
Edith Hall is a professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is the author of more than thirty books, including Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy and Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life. She lives in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Yiannis Gabriel is Professor Emeritus of Organisational Theory at the University of Bath, UK, and Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He is author of Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World (2024), Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention (2022), Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times (2004) and Storytelling In Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies (2000).
Vincent Woods is an Irish writer and broadcaster whose plays include At the Black Pig’s Dyke and A Cry from Heaven; and several plays for radio. His poetry collections are The Colour of Language and Lives and Miracles. He co-edited The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish Australia, and Fermata: Writings Inspired by Music (with Eva Bourke). Other publications are Leaves of Hungry Grass: Poetry and Ireland’s Great Hunger and Borderlines (with Henry Glassie).
Vincent presented the landmark RTÉ radio series, The County Measure, which explored contemporary Irish identity and sense of place a century after independence and partition. With Edwina Guckian he co-directed and produced the film Bealach an Fhéir Ghortaigh/Hunger’s Way for Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2021. Vincent has been Writer in Residence at NUI Galway, where he taught drama and creative writing. He has scripted and presented many arts programmes and documentaries on RTÉ Radio 1. He directs the Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Leitrim and is a member of Aosdána.
