Roderick Beaton

Roderick Macleod Beaton,

Born in 1951, Beaton was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with an English literature degree in 1973. He remained there to complete his doctoral studies;^[1] his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Myth and tradition in modern Greek folk poetry, a study of non-literate tradition, its technique and aims, in the context of lyric and ballad, rather than epic poetry."^[2]

Career

Beaton spent three years as the Ouranis Foundation Fellow in Modern Greek at the

On 9 September 2019 he was knighted[5] Commander of the Order of Honour by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos for his lifelong contribution to the promotion of medieval and modern Greek studies and culture.

Bibliography

• The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance (Aiora Press, 2021)
• The Greeks: A Global History (Basic Books, 2021)
• Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (Penguin Books Ltd, 2019)
• Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896) (Co-edited with D. Ricks), (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, Ashgate, 2009)
• George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel: A Biography (Yale University Press, 2003)
• An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• The Medieval Greek Romance (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 6, Cambridge University Press, 1989)
• Folk Poetry of Modern Greece (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

References