Bøker av David Ricks

With Signs Following, David Ricks's first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades.

This work on Byzantine heroic poetry offers material on "Digenes Akrites" and the classical revival in the 12th century; the Grottaferrata version of "Akrites"; Armenians in Byzantine epic poetry; the Akritic hero and its socio-cultural status in the light of comparative data; and more.

Aims to situate the Greek experience within the context of historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. This book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896.

In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in general. In this 1989 book he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems that deal with specifically Homeric themes to a careful scrutiny.

This collection of commissioned essays aims to present an overview of some of the different tendencies manifested by modern Greek attitudes to Byzantium since the late 18th-century Enlightenment.