David Ricks

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David Ricks (* 1936 ) is a British Neo-Greekist and Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at King's College London .

Ricks studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at Christ Church , Oxford . In his comparative interests he was supported there by the classical philologist Colin William MacLeod . The Ph.D. he graduated from the University of London with a dissertation on the reception of Homer in modern Greek poetry. He then held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the British Academy at the University of Birmingham , and has taught and researched in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King's College London since 1989 . In 1998 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University . From 2001 to 2004 he was Head of the School of Humanities at King's College London and initiated a Comparative Literature Program in 2002 .

Ricks works from a comparative perspective on modern Greek poetry, especially on Konstantinos Kavafis , and on the Byzantine heroic epic Digenis Akritis .

Fonts

  • The Shade of Homer. A study in modern Greek poetry . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-521-36663-1 . Revised edition in Greek translation by Aristea Parisi: Η σκιά του Ομήρου . Kardamitsa, Athens 1993, ISBN 960-7262-78-6 .
  • Byzantine Heroic Poetry . Bristol Classical Press, Bristol 1990, ISBN 1-85399-124-4 (edition of the Escorial version of the Digenes Akrites and the songs of Armouris with translation and annotations).
  • (Ed., With Roderick Beaton ): Digenes Akrites: new approaches to Byzantine heroic poetry . Variorum, Aldershot 1993, ISBN 0-86078-395-2 .
  • (Ed., With Paul Magdalino): Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity . Ashgate, Farnham 1998, ISBN 0-86078-613-7 .
  • (Ed.): Modern Greek Writing: an anthology in English translation . Peter Owen, London 2003, ISBN 0-7206-1086-9 .
  • (Ed., With Roderick Beaton): The Making of Modern Greece: Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896) . Ashgate, Farnham 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-6498-7 , Google Books: [1]

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SURNAME Ricks, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century