New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond

• Main Author: Van Rooy, Raf (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2023
• Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Classical Studies; Classical Tradition & Reception Studies; Early Modern History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on. As reader, you discover promising research perspectives to bridge the gap between the long-standing discipline of Neo-Latin studies and the young field of New Ancient Greek studies.