Nikolaos Loukanis Explained

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

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance

Notes and References

1. Hans Georg Beck, Manoussos Manoussacas, Agostino Pertusi, Venezia, Centro Di Mediazione Tra Oriente E Occidente, Secoli XV-XVI, 1977, p.457
2. Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greece, 2006, p.367
3. Web site: ELIA reference to Loukanis' first publication in modern Greek . 2008-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716182109/http://www.elia.org.gr/default.fds?langid=2&pagecode=16.05.02 . 2011-07-16 . dead .