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Claire Hall is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, affiliated with All Souls College since 2023 as a Fifty-Pound Fellow. Her academic background includes a DPhil from Oxford (2019), an MPhil (2015), and a BA in Classics (2014), both from Trinity College, Cambridge. She previously served as an Examination Fellow at All Souls College (2015–2022).
Her research focuses on the conceptualization of the future in Greco-Roman antiquity, exploring intersections between philosophy, literature, religion, and technical disciplines like medicine, astronomy, and divination. Current projects include analyzing how a predictable future emerged in Greco-Roman thought during the first to second centuries CE. Her 2021 monograph Origen and Prophecy examines early Christian philosopher Origen’s synthesis of fate, free will, and divine foreknowledge within ancient Jewish and Greek philosophical frameworks. She also contributes to edited volumes like Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity (2023).
Her publications combine textual analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, addressing topics such as astrological methodologies in Vettius Valens, dream interpretation in Artemidorus, and Ptolemy’s weather predictions. Teaching spans Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and classical languages.
- Major Awards: Fifty-Pound Fellowship (2023), All Souls Examination Fellowship (2015–2022)
- Key Themes: Patristics, ancient astrology, historiography, religious practices in antiquity
