Criticizing the Pagan Father of the Gods in Lorenz Rhodoman’s Ilias parva (1588/1604) Karen Lelittka (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The Greeks began their education with Homer. Homer retained his reputation as the king of poets throughout the Middle Ages, although his texts could not be read directly except in Byzantium. It was not until the RenaissanceContinue reading “Zeus, the Fool?”
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Trojan Heroes of the Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648): New Ancient Greek, Liberty and Remembrance
Thijs Kersten (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Writing to one of his pen pals on January 21, 1605, the Lowlandish scholar Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) could not help but address the elephant in the room. However pleasant his contact with the Spaniard Francisco Quevedo (1580–1645) had been, Lipsius felt the need to mention the wars Quevedo’s king hadContinue reading “Trojan Heroes of the Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648): New Ancient Greek, Liberty and Remembrance”
