Graham Speake
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Graham Speake (born 9 June 1946, London) is a British classical philologist and Byzantinist.
Education
After attending St Paul's School in London, Speake studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won various prizes for, among other things, poetry in ancient Greek. He continued his studies at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for an unpublished dissertation on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature.{{Cite web|url=https://deniseharveypublisher.gr/people/graham-speake|title=Graham Speake|website=deniseharveypublisher.gr}}
Career
Speake was subsequently an academic publisher for forty years. His publications include the Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History (1995) and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (2000). In 1996, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.{{Cite web|url=https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/world/mount-athos/|title=Mount Athos - Graham Speake, Kallistos Ware|website=azbyka.ru}}
Among other positions, he also worked for twelve years as a guest lecturer on Swan Hellenic Cruises. In 1988 he visited Mount Athos for the first time, to which he subsequently made frequent pilgrimages.
In 1990, with Derek Hill, he founded the Friends of Mount Athos society, under the patronage of Charles, Prince of Wales. As of 2022, he is President of the society.{{Cite web|url=https://athosfriends.org/officers/|title=Officers – FOMA|date=24 July 2023 }}
In 1999, he was received into the Greek Orthodox Church at Vatopedi Monastery. For his book Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2002) he received the 2002 Criticos Prize, awarded by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. A second edition of the book was published in 2014.
Personal life
In the 1970s, he married Jennifer Speake (née Jennifer Drake-Brockman), a Canadian writer who later became an editor at Oxford University Press.{{cite news | title=Marriages | newspaper=The Times | date=24 September 1971 | page=14 }}
Selected works
- {{cite book | last1=Dales | first1=Douglas | last2=Speake | first2=Graham | title=The life of prayer on Mount Athos | publication-place=Oxford | date=2020 | isbn=978-1-78997-521-5 | oclc=1153341087}}
- {{cite book | last=Speake | first=Graham | title=A history of the Athonite Commonwealth: the spiritual and cultural diaspora of Mount Athos | publication-place=New York | date=2018 | isbn=978-1-108-34922-2 | oclc=1041501028}}
- {{cite book | last1=Speake | first1=Graham | last2=Kallistos | first2=Bishop of Diokleia | author-link2=Kallistos (Ware) | title=Spiritual guidance on Mount Athos | publication-place=Oxford | date=2015 | isbn=978-3-0353-0693-4 | oclc=904800265}}
- {{cite book | last1=Speake | first1=Graham | last2=Ware | first2=Kallistos | author-link2=Kallistos (Ware) | title=Mount Athos: Microcosm of the Christian East | publisher=Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften | publication-place=Oxford | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-0353-0233-2 | oclc=823378976}}
- {{cite book | last=Speake | first=Graham | title=Mount Athos: renewal in paradise | publisher=Denise Harvey | publication-place=Limni, Evia, Greece | date=2014 | isbn=978-960-7120-34-2 | oclc=903320491}}
- {{cite book | last1=Gothóni | first1=René | last2=Speake | first2=Graham | title=The monastic magnet: roads to and from Mount Athos | publisher=Peter Lang | publication-place=Bern | date=2008 | isbn=978-3-03911-337-8 | oclc=230209474}}
- {{cite book | last1=Conomos | first1=Dimitri E. | last2=Speake | first2=Graham | title=Mount Athos, the sacred bridge: the spirituality of the Holy Mountain | publisher=Peter Lang | publication-place=Oxford | date=2005 | isbn=3-03910-064-5 | oclc=67924540}}
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Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Scholars of Byzantine history
Category:People associated with Mount Athos
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Category:Historians of Christianity
Category:Scholars in Eastern Orthodoxy