The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present

by: Pontani, F. Weise, S.

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About this book
Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire. However, after the Byzantine refugees restored the knowledge of Ancient Greek in the west during the early humanistic period (15th century), Italian scholars (and later their French, German, Spanish colleagues) started to use Greek, a purely literary language that no one spoke, for their own texts and poems. This habit persisted with various ups and downs throughout the centuries, according to the development of Greek studies in each country. The aim of this anthology - the first one of this kind - is to give a selective overview of this kind of humanistic poetry in Ancient Greek, embracing all major regions of Europe and trying to concentrate on remarkable pieces of important poets. The ultimate goal of the book is to shed light on an important and so far mostly neglected aspect of the European heritage.

Author information
F. Pontani, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy and S. Weise, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

General Introduction
Filippomaria Pontani and Stefan Weise

Timeline

Greece
Gerasimos Zoras, Kostas Yiavis and Filippomaria Pontani

Italy
Filippomaria Pontani

Germany
Stefan Weise

The Low Countries
Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy

The Bohemian Lands
Marcela Slavíková

Switzerland
Janika Päll and Martin Steinrück

France
Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Jean-Marie Flamand and Romain Menini

Balkans
Vlado Rezar

Hungary
Farkas Gábor Kiss and András Németh

Great Britain
Stefan Weise

Iberia
Filippomaria Pontani

Poland and Lithuania
Tomas Veteikis

Russia
Elena Ermolaeva

Austria
William M. Barton, Martin M. Bauer and Martin Korenjak

Nordic Countries
Johanna Akujärvi, Tua Korhonen, Janika Päll and Erkki Sironen

List of Contributors

Index Librorum Manuscriptorum

Index Selectivus Personarum

Index Selectivus Rerum Memorabilium

Index Graecitatis (neologismi, hapax legomena, verba rara)

The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present

by: Pontani, F. Weise, S.

• ISBN-13: 9783110641233 / 978-3-11-064123-3
• ISBN-03: 3110641232 / 3-11-064123-2
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2022

Price: 158,95 EURO

1 copy in stock