Nikolaos Loukanis
Nikolaos Loukanis was a 16th-century Greek Renaissance humanist. He worked in Venice where in 1526 he produced a translation of Homer's Iliad into modern Greek which is credited as one of the first literary texts published in Modern Greek (as most contemporary Greek scholars wrote in the Koine).[1][2][3]
Known works
- Homer's Iliad, translation into modern Greek
References
- ↑ Hans Georg Beck, Manoussos Manoussacas, Agostino Pertusi , Venezia, Centro Di Mediazione Tra Oriente E Occidente, Secoli XV-XVI, 1977, p.457
- ↑ Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greece, 2006, p.367
- ↑ ELIA reference to Loukanis' first publication in modern Greek
See also
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