Modern Greek Studies Association

Professor Roderick Beaton

Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Emeritus

King's College London

Centre for Hellenic Studies

Degrees

PhD Modern Greek, University of Cambridge, 1977

BA English Literature, University of Cambridge, 1973

Principal Publications

Byron's War: From the Romantic Imagination to the Greek Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (338pp.)

(edited) Εισαγωγή στο έργο του Καζαντζάκη: Επιλογή κριτικών κειμένων [Introduction to the Work of Kazantzakis: Selection of Critical Texts]. Heraklion and Athens: Crete University Press, 2011, 726 pp.

Ο Καζαντζάκης μοντερνιστής και μεταμοντέρνος [Kazantzakis as a Modernist and Postmodernist]. Athens: Kastaniotis (2009, 203 pp.)

(edited, with David Ricks) The Making of Modern Greece: Romanticism, Nationalism and the Uses of the Past. Farnham: Ashgate (2009)

George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel. A Biography. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003 (512 pp.); Greek translation: Oceanida, Athens, 2003

An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature. Oxford University Press, 1994, 426 pp. Greek translation, revised and slightly expanded: Athens: Nefeli, 1996; paperback edition, revised and updated: Oxford UP, 1999, 420 pp.

The Medieval Greek Romance. Cambridge University Press, 1989, 261 pp.; 2nd ed., revd and expanded: London: Routledge, 1996, 301pp. Greek translation: Athens: Kardamitsa, 1996; Italian translation: Rubbettino, 1997

Folk Poetry of Modern Greece. Cambridge University Press, 1980, 229 pp., paperback reissue, 2004