Edith Hall, Professor in the Classics Department and Centre for Hellenic Studies at Kings College London,  is one of Britain’s foremost classicists, a brilliant academic, writer and communicator. In 2015 she was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy Academy, given to a scholar whose works represent a significant contribution to European culture and scientific achievement. She is the first woman to win this award.  She has published more than twenty books on ancient Greek culture and its reception including The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy (2010), Adventures With Iphigenia in Tauris (2013) and The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped The Modern World (2015). Her latest work, Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life will be published in May 2019 by Vintage.