A conversation with Roderick Beaton on his new book The Greeks: A Global History. We discuss different ways to define who “the Greeks” were and are (in Byzantium Graikos meant a “Greek-speaker”); the diversity of groups that make up this story; how Byzantium can be featured in a diachronic history of Greek-speakers without being overlooked in favor of the ancients and moderns (as tends often to happen); and what might tie these Greeks together in a way that doesn’t quite work for, say, “the English-speaking peoples.”
Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London. His long career has focused on Byzantine and Modern Greek literature and history. Click here to view his university webpage.
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His latest book, The Greeks: A Global History, is a sweeping history of Greek speakers from the Bronze Age to present day. It is published by Basic Books. You can also buy it on Amazon.com.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. You can follow him on his personal website.
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You can listen to more episodes of Byzantium & Friends through Podbean
A conversation with Roderick Beaton on his new book The Greeks: A Global History. We discuss different ways to define who “the Greeks” were and are (in Byzantium Graikos meant a “Greek-speaker”); the diversity of groups that make up this story; how Byzantium can be featured in a diachronic history of Greek-speakers without being overlooked in favor of the ancients and moderns (as tends often to happen); and what might tie these Greeks together in a way that doesn’t quite work for, say, “the English-speaking peoples.”
Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London. His long career has focused on Byzantine and Modern Greek literature and history. Click here to view his university webpage.
His latest book, The Greeks: A Global History, is a sweeping history of Greek speakers from the Bronze Age to present day. It is published by Basic Books. You can also buy it on Amazon.com.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. You can follow him on his personal website.
You can listen to more episodes of Byzantium & Friends through Podbean
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