From Ulysses to St Simeon Stylites












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            Ústav řeckých a latinských studií zve na přednášky prof. Davida Rickse (King’s College, Lo

            Ulysses to St Simeon Stylites: Cavafy's debt to Tennyson' a 'Cavafy and the global transla
            které se uskuteční 29. května 2010 od 11.00 a od 17.00 (m.č. 141, Celetná 20).
            David Ricks, professor of Modern Greek & Comparative Literature

            Prof. David Ricks studied classics and philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was e
            his comparative literary interests by Colin Macleod. His doctoral thesis at the University
            on the comparative topic which became his first book, The Shade of Homer (Cambridge 1989).

            tenure of a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham, he h
            the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King’s College London since 1989; 

            Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies at Princeton U
            Head of the School of Humanities (2001-2004) he set in train the Comparative Literature Pr
            and joined its core teaching staff. In addition, he serves as the founding coordinator of 

            Strategic Alliance, a partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whi
            student exchange and faculty cooperation in many areas, not least Comparative Literature. 
            publications have some comparative aspect; among those which may be of particular interest

            are: Byzantine Heroic Poetry (Bristol 1990); Digenes Akrites: new approaches to Byzantine 
            (ed., with Roderick Beaton, Aldershot 1993); Byzantium and the modern Greek identity (ed.,
            Magdalino, Aldershot 1998); and Modern Greek Writing: an anthology in English translation 

            (A fuller list of publications is in PDF form below.) His current research interests inclu
            poetry in comparative perspective, especially the work of C.P. Cavafy, and verse translati
            and current papers cover such topics as war poetry; Cavafy and the Greek Anthology; Dante 

            Greece; literature and Orthodoxy; and Victorian translations of Homer. Books based on doct
            completed under his supervision embrace the themes of literature and religion, the novel o
            city, innovations in modern poetic form, and the relation between poetry and the visual ar