Roderick Beaton: 3 books
Byron's War
Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Byron's War traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote...
by Roderick Beaton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
First published by CUP in 1989, The Medieval Greek Romance provides basic information for the non-specialist about Greek fiction during the period 1071-1453, as well as proposing new solutions to problems that have vexed previous generations of scholars. Roderick Beaton applies sophisticated methods...
Digenes Akrites
New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines...