David Holton

David Holton (* 1946 ) is a British Neo-Greekist and Professor of Modern Greek at Cambridge University .

Life

Holton is a member of Selwyn College and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. He works both in literary studies on the genre of the Byzantine love novel , in particular Erotokritos , on early prints and on Venetocracy (the rule of the city-state of Venice over Crete and Cyprus ) and linguistically on the history and current structure of Greek .

Together with Geoffrey Horrocks and with the participation of Panagiotis Toufexis , Holton directed the research project "Grammar of Medieval Greek" at Cambridge University from 2004 to 2009.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and editorships

• David Holton, Tina Lendari , Ulrich Moennig , Peter Vejleskov (Eds.): Copyists, Collectors, Redactors and Editors: Manuscripts and Editions of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature. Papers given at a Conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 23-26 May 2002, in honor of Hans Eideneier and Arnold van Gemert . Herakleio: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, Herakleion 2005, pp. 251-273.
• Διήγησις του Αλεξάνδρου. The Tale of Alexander. The Rhymed Version. Critical edition with introduction and commentary. Morfotiko Idryma Ethnikis Trapezis, Athens 2002. (corrected reprint of the 1974 edition with a new afterword)
• Μελέτες για τον Ερωτόκριτο και άλλα νεοελληνικά κείμενα. Kastaniotis, Athens 2001. ("Studies on Erotokritos and other modern Greek texts")
• (Ed.): Literature and society in Renaissance Crete. Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-521-32579-X , books.google.de

Grammars

• (with Peter Mackridge , Irene Philippaki-Warburton ): Greek. A comprehensive grammar of the modern language. Routledge, London 1997, books.google.de
  • Greek translation: Γραμματική της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Translated by Vasilis Spyropoulos. Patakis, Athens 1999.
• (with Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton): Greek. An essential grammar of the modern language. Routledge, London 2004.
  • Greek translation: Βασική γραμματική της σύγχρονης ελληνικής γλώσσας. Translated from Michalis Georgiafentis. Patakis, Athens 2007.
• Davod Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen , Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou, Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek , Cambridge University Press, 2019 CUP website

items

• Classical Antiquity and Cretan Renaissance Poetry. In: Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora , 27.1-2, 2001, pp. 87-101, brynmawr.edu (PDF)

Web links

• Personal page at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, Modern Greek Section, University of Cambridge