sentences:  Her argument that ancient ideas about ethnicity underlie modern questions of nationalism, racism and ethnic self-determination has been influential in Classics, and regarded as 'seminal' by certain scholars in other fields.This work was developed in her scholarly commentary on the Greek text of Aeschylus' "Persians", with English translation (1996), and in the essay collection she edited "Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars" (2007).In recent years, Hall's research has also incorporated later Cultural History, especially the social role played by the presence of ancient Greece and Rome.