HOLTON DAVID
Education and degrees
- School:
Northampton Grammar School, 1957-64 - Undergraduate:
Hertford College, Oxford, 1964-68: Open Scholarship in Classics; Classical Honour Moderations, Class II, 1966; Final Honour School of Modern and Mediaeval Languages (Mediaeval and Modern Greek), Class I, 1968; BA (Hons.) 1968 - Postgraduate:
Hertford College, Oxford, 1968-71: Senior Scholar 1969-71. Thesis accepted 1971. Title: “Birth, exploits and death of Alexander the Macedonian in verse: a critical edition with introduction and commentary”. Supervisor: Professor K. Mitsakis. DPhil conferred 1972 - University of Thessaloniki, 1971-2 (Greek Government Scholar)
- MA (Oxon.) 1972
- PhD (Cantab.) 1984 (by incorporation)
Professional history
- September-December 1972: teacher of English as a foreign language, Eckersley School of English, Oxford
- January 1973-July 1975: Research Fellow, School of Hellenic and Roman Studies, University of Birmingham
- August 1975- March 1981: Administrative posts, University of Birmingham
- April 1981-September 2000: Lewis-Gibson Lecturer in Modern Greek, University of Cambridge
- October 2000-September 2006: Reader in Modern Greek, University of Cambridge
- October 2006-September 2013: Professor of Modern Greek, University of Cambridge
- October 2013- : Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge
June 2026
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