@edithmayhall

Partly inspired by Albert Camus' insistence that we must imagine Sisyphus happy and embrace rather than evade life's absolute, risible incomprehensibility, my new motto and emblem, "In Absurdity, Laughter"

Best pint of Ghost Ship anywhere!

Heartbroken to hear of the death of Professor Christopher Rowe, beloved father of the Durham Classics Department, outstanding scholar and philosopher who walked the Virtue Ethics talk. He was also chair of the Advisory Board of our @AristotleStyle research project. Bleak day.

So I had terrible fall down lunatic stairs inside my room in a Polish hotel 15 days ago. Unconscious for 8 hours. But how long does it take for haematomas to recede? I can’t go on looking like this indefinitely!

So when we weren’t having fun, @ConnieBloomf and I edited this enormous book, published today @AristotleStyle

Delighted to take delivery of this brilliant, important book by @ProfArleneHH and @edithmayhall. Glad I was able to make a tiny contribution and, more importantly, acknowledge the vital role of my inspirational teacher Mike Billinge, who lit a fire in me which burns to this day.

The special issue I edited, with brilliant articles by @ProfArleneHH Phil Horky @RosieWyles Alessandro Vatri Aristotle's Rhetoric and its Audiences, is published! My chapters survey history of the treatise's reception and what Thomas Hobbes made of it muse.jhu.edu/issue/55165

My Anti-bucket list. Never: Visit a Polish A & E Marry a Kantian Phone Wizzair Helpline Attend Italian conference sans hipflask Trust a Mortgage Broker Drink Cherry Brandy Hire someone on basis solely of interview Put work before family Expect OUP not to import errors Yours?

Not often I get to speak in quite such an opulent frame as at Uniwersytet Wrocławski. I needed more blingy ear rings to be frank

Held up at Stansted Security for FIFTEEN MINUTES by this suspicious object in my underseat bag. They swabbed nearly every page, especially where I had underlined that snakes are immoderate wine drinkers!

🚨 2 WEEKS TODAY! 🚨 9am, Tues 22 July, we start s11 of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. First we’re visiting the ancient city of Alexandria, with Professors @islamaissa & @edithmayhall. Be there, in case it doesn’t come to you in a dream… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Off to Wroclaw to speak at International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC) megabash. @ProfArleneHH has got there and already located Aristotle. @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle

On #WorldDayOfForgiveness, Michael Longley's greatest poem, inspired by the meeting of Priam and Achilles in Iliad 24. The last two lines reduce me to tears every time.

Happy World Kissing Day

This stunning vase in Berlin shows Thetis' serial transformations into a lioness and snakes simultaneously. Peleus could only wed her if her held her fast until she stopped morphing: look at the interlocking of the fingers to convey this. Human Key Pattern.

What on earth is going on here? Grown man, licked by two snakes, hold up portrait (or is it a mirror?) of Athena/Minerva. Detail of a mosaic at the Bardo Museum, coming from the Trajan Baths in Acholla. I'm somewhat flummoxed.

Aristotle: Ancient Greece’s greatest philosopher? Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Greece by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Dan Schreiber to learn all about famous philosopher Aristotle and his world-changing ideas. 👉 ow.ly/Z6ni50Wa9tl #PodcastFriday

On #internationalfishermansday a stunning mosaic from Bardo in Tunisia. The detail of the different fish and cephalopods is tremendous.

I adore small provincial archaeological museums in Greece. Look at the cheeky/joyful expression on this Hellenistic dancing boy satyr in Amphissa, chief town of Phocis. His right-hand squatting ithyphallic older colleague looks just like a famous Professor Greek I know

Today I found the Bronze Age citadel at “divine Crisa” in Phocis where Pylades was born & Orestes was sent after Agamemnon sailed for Troy, a ship from Crisa in his fleet. See the boulders amidst the modern stones. First chapter of my forthcoming novel sorted!

My train was supposed to be going into St Pancras to Gatwick but we were told by driver that it’ll now terminate at Kings Cross. But the signalman has accidentally sent him towards St Pancras. I hope it’s not dangerous. The driver is leaving the train to walk back to the signal!