Sex, Politics, Slavery and Art: Adventures in the Reception of Aristotle
The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool is delighted to announce our Postgate Lecture for 2024-25, open to the public and to members of the University. This year’s lecture will be given by Professor Edith Hall, FBA (Durham University)
Sex, Politics, Slavery and Art: Adventures in the Reception of Aristotle
The Postgate Lecture will take place at 5.15 pm on Tuesday 3 December in Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub.
After the lecture, there will be a drinks reception open to all those attending: please sign up on Ticketsource in order that we can plan for catering.
Edith Hall is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published more than thirty books, broadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as consultant with professional theatres, lectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers. She is a world leader in the study of ethnicity, class and gender in ancient sources, of ancient theatre, and of the instrumentality of ancient ideas in world culture since the Renaissance. Her current research investigates ecological issues in ancient myth, epic and drama, Aristotle’s presences beyond the Academy, Aristotle’s writing styles, the afterlives of women in the Aeneid and Classics and Social Class in the North-East of England.
After the lecture, there will be a drinks reception open to all those attending: please sign up on Ticketsource in order that we can plan for catering.
Edith Hall is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published more than thirty books, broadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as consultant with professional theatres, lectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers. She is a world leader in the study of ethnicity, class and gender in ancient sources, of ancient theatre, and of the instrumentality of ancient ideas in world culture since the Renaissance. Her current research investigates ecological issues in ancient myth, epic and drama, Aristotle’s presences beyond the Academy, Aristotle’s writing styles, the afterlives of women in the Aeneid and Classics and Social Class in the North-East of England.