Greek and Roman Actors - Aspects of an Anciant Profession - Grand Format

Pat Easterling is an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1994 to 2001, and Professor of Greek at University College London from 1987 to 1994. She has been a General Editor of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics since its foundation over thirty years ago, and has published an edition within this series of Sophocles' Trachiniae (1982), co-edited, with B.
M. W. Knox, Volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1985) and edited The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (1997). She is currently writing a commentary on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colones. Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham and has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Reading and Oxford, where she was Fellow of Somerville College from 1995 to 2001.
She is Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford and author of Inventing the Barbarian (1989), editor of Aeschylus' Persians (1996) and co-editor of Medea in Pe formante (2000). She is currently working, with Fiona Macintosh, on a history of Greek tragedy on the British Stage for Oxford University Press.