Graham Speake

Graham Speake (born June 9, 1946 in London ) is a British classical philologist and Byzantinist .

After attending St Paul's School in London, Speake began studying Classics at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he won various prizes, including for poetry in ancient Greek . He continued his studies at Christ Church , Oxford , where he received his PhD with an unpublished dissertation on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature. He was then an academic publisher for forty years. His own publications include the Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History (1995) and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (2000). In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . Among other things, he also worked as a guest lecturer on the Swan Hellenic Cruises for twelve years . In 1988 he visited Mount Athos for the first time , to which he subsequently made frequent pilgrimages. In 1990 he founded the Friends of Mount Athos association with Derek Hill , which is under the patronage of the Prince of Wales . In 1999 he was accepted into the Greek Orthodox Church in the Vatopedi Monastery . For his book Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2002) he received the Criticos Prize awarded by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies for 2002.

Fonts (selection)

• with Kallistos Ware (Ed.): Spiritual guidance on Mount Athos. Peter Lang, Bern 2015.
• with Kallistos Ware (Ed.): Mount Athos. Microcosm of the Christian East. Peter Lang, Bern 2012.
• Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2002, (excerpts online) ; Greek translation 2005.
• Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London / Chicago 2000. - Review by Paul Stephenson, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001-09-22 .
• The Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1995.

Web links

• Speake, Graham .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Denise Harvey (Publisher): author page (with photograph)