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Nikolaos Loukanis was a 16th-century Greek Renaissance humanist. He worked in Venice where in 1526 he produced a translation of Homer's Iliad into modern Greek which is credited as one of the first literary texts published in Modern Greek (as most contemporary Greek scholars wrote in the Koine).

Known works

• Homer's Iliad, translation into modern Greek

See also

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance

References

1. Hans Georg Beck, Manoussos Manoussacas, Agostino Pertusi , Venezia, Centro Di Mediazione Tra Oriente E Occidente, Secoli XV-XVI, 1977, p.457
2. Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greece, 2006, p.367
3. "ELIA reference to Loukanis' first publication in modern Greek". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-03-24.

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