# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:58:32.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-hall"
name: "Edith Hall"
slug: "edith-hall"
description: "Edith Hall is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She has spoken on the radio and appeared on television as an expert in Ancient Greek society, literature and theatre. Her book Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me has been shortlisted for the 2024 London Hellenic Prize. As of 2025, her most recent book is Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education, written with Arlene Holmes-Henderson."
tagline: "British classics scholar (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edith_Hall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.541501976284585
  historical:           7.643380000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/edithmayhall"
    handle:    "edithmayhall"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://edithhall.co.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "伊迪丝·霍尔"
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    title: "إديث هال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edith Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hall"
    title: "Edith Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hall"
    title: "Edith Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hall"
    title: "Edith Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Холл, Эдит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Едіт Холл"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump