Roderick Macleod Beaton, FBA, FKC (born 1951) is a retired academic. He was Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1988 to 2018.

Education

Born in 1951, Beaton was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with an English literature degree in 1973. He remained there to complete his

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;"Beaton, Prof. Roderick Macleod"
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, December 2018). Retrieved 28 August 2019. his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his

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"Myth and tradition in modern Greek folk poetry, a study of non-literate tradition, its technique and aims, in the context of lyric and ballad, rather than epic poetry."

Career

Beaton spent three years as the Ouranis Foundation Fellow in Modern Greek at the

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(1977''–''80) before joining King's College London in 1981 as a lecturer. He was appointed Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College in 1988,"Professor Roderick Beaton"
''King's College London''. Retrieved 28 August 2019. and was also head of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from 1988 to 1994 and again from 1995 to 1998, and director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies from 2012 to 2016. He also held a Major Leverhulme Fellowship from 2009 to 2012. He retired from his chair at King's College in 2018. In 2013, Beaton was elected a Fellow of the

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences. He was also elected a

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in 2018. On 9 September 2019 he was knighted Commander of the Order of Honour by

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for his lifelong contribution to the promotion of medieval and modern Greek studies and culture.

Bibliography

* ''The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance'' (Aiora Press, 2021) * ''The Greeks: A Global History'' (Basic Books, 2021) * ''Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation'' (Penguin Books Ltd, 2019) * ''Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution'' (

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, 2013) * ''The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)'' (Co-edited with D. Ricks), (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London,

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, 2009) * ''George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel: A Biography'' (

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, 2003) * ''An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature'' (

, 1999) * ''The Medieval Greek Romance'' (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 6,

, 1989) * ''Folk Poetry of Modern Greece'' (

, 1980)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beaton, Roderick Living people 1951 births Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Academics of the University of Birmingham Academics of King's College London Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of King's College London