David Holton

David Holton was born in Northampton, England, in 1946 and studied classical, Byzantine, and modern Greek philology at the University of Oxford. After completing his doctoral thesis there, he continued his studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then worked as a researcher at the University of Birmingham. Since 1981, he has been teaching modern Greek language and literature at the University of Cambridge. He has published the books "The Tale of Alexander" (Thessaloniki 1974), "Erotokritos" (Bristol 1991), "Grammar of the Greek Language" (Athens 1999—English edition: London 1997), in collaboration with Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton, and "The Turnings of the Circle: Erotokritos in Electronic Analysis" (4 volumes, Athens 1996-2000), in collaboration with Dia Philippidou. He edited the collective volume "Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete" (Heraklion 1997—English edition 1991). He has published numerous articles on early, Renaissance, and contemporary modern Greek literature and edits the journal "Kambos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek."