In Conversation: Edith Hall and Yiannis Gabriel

Reading Myths: Edith Hall and Yiannis Gabriel

Literary In Conversation event, chaired by Vincent Woods.

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.

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.