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  • The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance

    It has been called the 'age of revolution'. The white heat of it came in the decades either side of the year 1800. But it lasted a full century: from the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the great national 'unifications' of Germany and Italy during the 1860s. Right in the middle of this long 'age of revolution' and, as it turns out, the pivotal point within it, comes the Greek ... Read more

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  • Europe

    A New History

    **A bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.“A true tour de force.”** —Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsWhat do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a ... Read more

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  • The Greeks

    A Global History

    A “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to todayMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick ... Read more

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  • Byron's War

    Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution

    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 himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in ... Read more

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  • Greece

    Biography of a Modern Nation

    For many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a ... Read more

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  • Digenes Akrites

    New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    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 and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and public figures in Greece. There are many reasons ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Greek Romance

    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 of literary analysis to the material, and the bridges of the artificial gap which has separated ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Greece

    Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)

    by David Ricks ...
    Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the ... Read more

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  • Music, Language and Identity in Greece

    Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory and modern Greek studies), who investi- gate the links that connect music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek paradigm. ... Read more

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  • Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry

    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service ... Read more

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    The Greeks

    A Global History

    Narrated by Anna Crowe ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 38 min

    A “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to todayMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick ... Read more

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    Europe

    A New History

    Narrated by Alisdair Simpson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    A bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine**.**What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a collective identity.Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, ... Read more

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