Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
About the Book Series
Initiated in 1993 as an extension of the activities of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, this series covers all aspects of Greek culture and civilization. The volumes published to date present a broad range of topics from ancient to modern, including the papers of several international symposia held at KCL. Titles deal with the history of Alexandria, the image of Socrates across the centuries, the early years of El Greco, the making of modern Greece, Greek-Turkish relations in modern times, and the history of Greek photography. Volumes recently published or in preparation cover the reign of the 12th-century Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos, the politics behind Lord Byron’s intervention in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and Greek art music since the early 19th century.
For further information about the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk
1st Edition
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By Fiona Macintosh, David Ricks
November 06, 2025
The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941–) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the ...
The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946–1951
1st Edition
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By Gonda Van Steen
July 31, 2025
The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through...
When Greeks and Turks Meet: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923
1st Edition
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By Vally Lytra
October 14, 2024
The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, ...
Greek Eyes on Europe: The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu
1st Edition
By John Muir
September 25, 2023
This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some of the great northern Italian cities, gives ...
Music, Language and Identity in Greece: Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
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By Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou, Roderick Beaton
June 30, 2021
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- ...
Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities: Essays in Honour of Robert Holland
1st Edition
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By Anastasia Yiangou, Antigone Heraclidou
August 14, 2020
This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert ...
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium
1st Edition
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By Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Sophia Xenophontos
June 30, 2020
This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume’s ...
Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry
1st Edition
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By Roderick Beaton, Christine Kenyon Jones
December 12, 2019
'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 ...
Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities
1st Edition
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By Philip Carabott, Yannis Hamilakis, Eleni Papargyriou
December 12, 2019
While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an important cultural and material process. This is surprising, given that Modern Greece and photography are almost peers: both are cultural products of the ...
John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son
1st Edition
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By Alessandra Bucossi, Alex Rodriguez Suarez
December 12, 2019
The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia ...
Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity
1st Edition
By David Ricks, Paul Magdalino
February 27, 2018
Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning of this heritage, in its various aspects, has hitherto been surprisingly little discussed by scholars. This collection of specially commissioned ...
Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry
1st Edition
By Roderick Beaton, David Ricks
November 25, 2016
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 ...