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Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London and Chair of Trustees of the British School at Athens, an institute of advanced research. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award, for his books An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature, George Seferis- Waiting for the Angel- A Biography, Byron's War- Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution, and Greece- Biography of a Modern Nation, published by Penguin in 2019. He is also the author of The Greeks- A Global History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic, and an honorary citizen of Greece. He was knighted in 2025.
Praise for Roderick Beaton's previous book Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation * - * The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life -- Victoria Hislop * The Week * Beaton's new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern Greece in English for years to come * Financial Times * A perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of the EU * Country Life * This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single most outstanding treatment of its subject -- Professor Robert Holland A wonderfully engaging narrative... It is a superb achievement and to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary interest -- Professor Kevin Featherstone
