Hermes
Platform for early modern Hellenism
Welcome to Hermes! This platform is intended for spreading information about projects, calls for papers and contributions, and publications related to the ancient Greek heritage in the early modern world.
Initiative: Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven) & Han Lamers (University of Oslo)
Editors: Adriaan Demuynck, Liese Dictus & Raf Van Rooy (all KU Leuven)
We are currently looking for contributors to the blog. English is the main working language, but we can consider contributions in other major European languages, too. Blogs are typically 1000-2000 words. You can look at previous posts for inspiration in terms of length, style, and tone. Please get in touch with liese.dictus@kuleuven.be if you’re interested in writing a piece. You can find our latest three posts below.
“Eine reine Geschmacksache”: textual criticism of Latin-Greek code-switching in Roman satire
Pieter-Jan Mannens (KU Leuven) Anyone wishing to study bilingualism in Roman literature is reliant on written sources that have been handed down to us by medieval scribes. Errors inevitably creep into the text during the copying process, and matters become particularly difficult when a scribe has to copy passages that he or she can barely…
Hospitality and a Translation into Greek
Tobias Heiss (Universität Innsbruck) Writing Greek verse takes practice. So much so that the better part of New Ancient Greek poetry was never intended to have a broader readership at all. Scribblings, attempts, and exercises are easily discarded, especially by authors who have outgrown them.[1] In this context, the translation of Latin poems into Greek…
Greek and Latin Paratexts in the “Novum Testamentum”
Laura Truzzu (KU Leuven) Erasmus of Rotterdam’s edition of the New Testament is a monument to early modern bilingual scholarship. Published in 1516 as the Novum Instrumentum, it presented a Greek text of the New Testament, the first ever to appear in print, alongside a revised Latin translation, supplemented by an extensive collection of annotations.…
