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 barelyContinue reading ““Eine reine Geschmacksache”: textual criticism of Latin-Greek code-switching in Roman satire”
Category Archives: Epigrams
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 GreekContinue reading “Hospitality and a Translation into Greek”
A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)
Dries Nijs (KU Leuven) Leiden University library houses an extensive collection of printed disputationes. These broadsheets and pamphlets present the theses that university students — the respondentes — defended against opponentes, under the supervision of a professor acting as praeses. This corpus extends from shortly after the founding of Leiden University (1575) into the 20thContinue reading “A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)”
On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek
Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel Heinsius’ (1580–1655) ‘Hellenizing Muse’: the Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum. Aside from an appendix of ἐρωτικά, which fills the final pages of the last gathering (removed in subsequent editions), theContinue reading “On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek”
A Hellenic Voice from the Tyrolean Lowlands
Tobias Heiss (Universität Innsbruck) A few years before the Austrian secondary education system underwent a structural reform in 1849, which established Ancient Greek as a mandatory subject, a Franciscan monk named Bern(h)ard Niedermühlbichler (1798–1850) already published two works of exemplary New Ancient Greek versification with a pedagogical goal in mind. As a teacher of classicsContinue reading “A Hellenic Voice from the Tyrolean Lowlands”
