Nikolaos Loukanis
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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
See also
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". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
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