Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20045371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Sandy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 47-78 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Classical Heritage in France (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047400639_005 |
| OpenAlex | W2480353751 |
| ISBN | 9789047400639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter reviews the resources that were available to a French person desirous of learning ancient Greek in France in the late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth centuries: teachers and teaching institutions, grammars, dictionaries, manuscripts and books. Italy provided France with the earliest teachers of Greek, whether they were Italians like Gregorio Tifernas and Girolamo Aleandro or Byzantine refugees resident in Italy like Janus Lascaris. Tifernas, the first of the teachers, had studied Greek in Greece. Thereafter, he flitted among the major centres of learning and patronage, attached to the courts of the kings of Naples and Sicily, spending part of 1456 in Venice and teaching Greek there in 1460. To his regret he also spent time in Paris, where the humanist Robert Gaguin studied the rudiments of ancient Greek with him. He also strikes the familiar chord of French inferiority vis-a-vis Italy. Keywords: ancient Greek; France; Naples; Sicily
Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Art · Byzantine architecture · Fifteenth · Greek Literature · Humanism · Political science · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |