About Nikolaos Loukanis
Nikolaos Loukanis was a scholar, translator and writer.
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).
Known works Homer's Iliad, translation into modern Greek
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Who was Nikolaos Loukanis?
Greek humanist
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Nikolaos Loukanis was born in Zakynthos.
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Nikolaos Loukanis was a scholar, translator and writer.
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