Nikolaos Loukanis

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]

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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

Greek scholars in the Renaissance

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