David Ricks: 4 books

Book cover of The Making of Modern Greece

The Making of Modern Greece

Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)

by David Ricks
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to...
Book cover of Digenes Akrites

Digenes Akrites

New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

by Roderick Beaton, David Ricks
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

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...
Book cover of Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity
by David Ricks, Paul Magdalino
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

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 essays...
Book cover of Kick It, Mo!
by David A. Adler, Sam Ricks
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

This fourth title in the perenially popular, Geisel Award-winning Level 2 readers series features a sport that's a kid favorite: soccer! The soccer season is starting, and Mo has been working hard on his kicking skills so he can help his team, the Billy Goats, score a goal. But when he gets...
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