David Holton

David Holton ( born 1946 ) is a British Neogräzist and Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge.

Life

Holton is a member of the Selwyn College and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages ​​at the University of Cambridge. He works both literary studies to the genus of the Byzantine romance novel, especially the Erotokritos to early printing and Venetokratie ( the rule of the city state of Venice over Crete and Cyprus) as well as linguistically on the history and current structure of Greek.

Together with Geoffrey Horrocks and with the participation of Panagiotis Toufexis passes Horrocks present a research project to develop the world's first grammar of the vernacular Greek of the Middle Ages.

Writings (selection )

Monographs and Editorial Boards

• David Holton, Tina Lendari, Ulrich Moennig, Peter Vejleskov (ed.): Copyists, collectors, redactors and Editors: Manuscripts and Editions of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature. Papers givenName at a Conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 23-26 May 2002, in honor of Hans Eideneier and Arnold van Gemert. Herakleio: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, Herakleion 2005, pp. 251-273.
• Διήγησις του Αλεξάνδρου. The Tale of Alexander. The Rhymed version. Critical edition with introduction and commentary. Morfotiko Idryma Ethnikis Trapezis, Athens 2002. (Corrected and provided with a new afterword reprint of 1974 edition )
• Μελέτες για τον Ερωτόκριτο και άλλα νεοελληνικά κείμενα. Kastaniotis, Athens 2001. ( "Studies on Erotokritos and other modern Greek texts " )
• (Ed.): Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete. Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0 - 521-32579 -X, books.google.de

Grammars

• ( with Peter Mack Ridge, Irene Philippaki - Warburton ): Greek. A comprehensive grammar of the modern language. Routledge, London 1997 Greek translation: . Patakis, Athens 1999 books.google.de,
• ( with Peter Mack Ridge, Irene Philippaki - Warburton ): Greek. An essential grammar of the modern language. Routledge, London 2004 Greek translation: . Patakis, Athens 2007.

Article

• Classical Antiquity and Cretan Renaissance Poetry. In: Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, 27.1-2, 2001, pp. 87-101, brynmawr.edu (PDF)