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

See also

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance

References