Aristotle, Women and Greek Tragedy: A Lecture by Edith Hall

The School of Humanities invites you to the 

2nd Lecture of the Kwan Laurel Endowment for the Humanities, on Aristotle, Women and Greek Tragedy

A Lecture by Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, Durham University

on March 17, 5pm at the Leong Hall Auditorium.

About the lecture

A paradox lies at the heart of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle’s analyses of the best type of hero in a tragedy as outlined in his Poetics, his account of women as less able to deliberate than men in his Politics Book 1, and the actual moral stature of women in the surviving tragedies. This illustrated lecture examines the tensions between his remarks about male-female relationships in his ethical and political works and his admiration for Greek tragedy, with special reference to Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Medea.

Note on the speaker

Edith Hall is a Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy, Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun, and Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life, among other titles, and the co-editor of Women Classical Scholars and Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform. She appears frequently on television and radio in the UK where the topic is the classics, and is a consultant at various professional theater companies. Her latest book is People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain 1689-1939, co-authored with Henry Stead. She was recently elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy.

For security and health reasons, only registered guests will be allowed entry into the auditorium. 

To join us in the flesh, register here: go.ateneo.edu/EdithHall2023

Join us online on Zoom: go.ateneo.edu/EdithHallOnline

Watch via streaming here: ateneo.edu/youtube