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New Ancient Greek^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] (also known as Humanist Greek,^[6]^[7] Neo-Greek^[4] and Neo-Paleo Greek,^[8] German: Neualtgriechisch^[2]^[9]) is the term used to describe the form of Ancient Greek used by authors from the Renaissance onwards to compose literary texts of various sorts and genres.

The revival of Ancient Greek in Western Europe was closely connected to the arrival of Byzantine scholars and migrants after the Fall of Constantinople (1453), who helped transmit Greek manuscripts, language, and learning to Italy and the rest of Europe. Its use flourished alongside Humanistic Latin (though not on the same extent), creating a form of learned bilingualism that gradually became anchored in early modern intellectual culture on a European scale.^[1]^[2]

Most New Ancient Greek works are still not published and are poorly catalogued.^{[citation needed]}

Notable works

Academic Examination (Ἡ Ἀνάκρισις ἀκαδημαϊκή. Ἔπος γελοῖον), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1826)
Arion (Ἀρίων), Laurentius Rhodoman (1567?/1588)^[10]^[11]
Astronautilia (Ἀστροναυτιλία), Jan Křesadlo (1995)^[12]^[13]
The Bugs (Ἶπες), Julius Richter (1871)
The City of Graces (Χαρίτων πόλις), Ludwig Mayr (1897/1902)
The Crown (Στέφανος), Theodorus Korsch (1886)
Diegesis or Versified account of the famous game of the Florentines, called by them ‘calcioʼ, by the ancients harpastos (Διήγησις τοῦ κλεινοῦ ἀγῶνος τῶν Φλωρεντινῶν διὰ στίχων, ὅστις παρ’ ἐκείνοις μὲν Κάλτζιον, παρὰ δὲ τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ἀποκαλεῖται Ἁρπαστόν), Georgios Koressios (1611)
The duel of Eteocles and Polynices (Ἐτεοκλοῦς καὶ Πολυνείκους μονομαχία), Friederich Engels (1837)
Epigramms (Liber epigrammatum graecorum), Angelo Poliziano (Omnia Opera, 1498)^[14]
Epistles (Ἐπιστολαί), Anna Maria van Schurman (Opuscula Hebræa, Græca, Latina, Gallica. Prosaica et Metrica, 1648)^[15]
Graces, an idyl (Χάριτες, εἰδύλλιον), Adam František Kollár (1756)
Greek epigramms (Ἑλληνικὰ ἐπιγράμματα), Ioannes Kottounios (1653)
Greek poems (Poematum Graecorum libri duo), Martin Crusius (1567)
Greek poems (Μιχαήλου Ῥετελλίου ποιημάτων ἑλληνικῶν βίβλοι δύο), Michael Retell (1571)^[16]
Harlemiad (Ἁρλεμιὰς ἢ ἐξήγησις τῆς πολιορκίας τῆς πόλεως Ἁρλεμίης), Nicolaas Jansz. van Wassenaar (1605)^[17]
Helen and Alexander (Τὰ καθ᾽ Ἑλένην καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον), Demetrios Moschos (1493)
Hellas (Ἑλλάς), Leone Allacci (1642)
Hilarolypos: Happy and Sad (Ἱλαρόλυπος), Edward Eyth (1840)
Idylls or Heroes (Εἰδύλλια ἢ Ἥρωες, καὶ ἄλλα ποιημάτιά τινα), Johannes Foreestius (1605)^[2]
Jephthah (Ἰεφθάε), John Christopherson (1544)^[18]
Lament on the destruction of Greece (Θρῆνος εἰς τὴν Ἑλλάδος καταστροφήν), Antonios Eparchos (1544)
Mantle of Greek Epigramms (Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum), Daniel Heinsius (1613)^[19]
Praise of Antwerp (Εἰς τὴν μεγαλοπρεπεστάτην, καὶ πάντων τῶν Βελγῶν λαμπροτάτην πόλιν τὴν Ἀνδωβερπαίαν ὕμνος), Georgius Schroegelius (1565)^[20]
Telephoniazusae (Τηλεφωνιάζουσαι), Ronald Knox (1918)
Troica (Τρωικά), Laurentius Rhodoman (1588/1604)^[10]
Various poems in Greek and Latin (Ποιήματα διάφορα Ἑλληνικὰ καὶ Λατινικά), Tito Prospero Martinengo (1582)^[21]
Xenophon's Heracles (Ξενοφῶντος Ἡρακλῆς), Petrus Ivarus Borrichius (1595)

References

1 2 Rooy, Raf Van (2023-04-04), New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World, Brill, retrieved 2026-08-26
1 2 3 4 Lamers, Han; Van Rooy, Raf (2022-03-17). "Graecia Belgica: writing Ancient Greek in the early modern Low Countries". Classical Receptions Journal. 14: 435–462. doi:10.1093/crj/clac004.
↑ Veteikis, Tomas; Malinowski, Gosciwit (2021-01-01). "European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Poland and Lithuania". doi:10.1515/9783110652758-014 – via academia.edu.
1 2 "CfP New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies". Faculteit Letteren (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-08-26.
↑ "DaLeT". www.dalet.be. Retrieved 2026-08-30.
↑ "Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek Poetry in the Baltic Region: An Anthology". Lund University. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
↑ Päll, Janika; Volt, Ivo (2018-01-01). Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe: Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture.
↑ Rooy, Raf Van (2020-01-10). Greece’s labyrinth of language. Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-210-5.
↑ Weise, Stefan (2016-11-07). "Eλληνίδ̉ αἰ̃αν εỉσιδεῖν ἱμείрομαι – Neualtgriechische Literatur in Deutschland (Versuch eines Überblicks)". Antike und Abendland. 62. doi:10.1515/anab-2016-0109.
1 2 Weise, Stefan (2024-03-16). "Dialects and Languages in the Poetic Oeuvre of Laurentius Rhodoman (1545–1606)". Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures. 0 (9). doi:10.21825/jolcel.87171. ISSN 2593-743X.
↑ Rhodoman, Lorenz; Weise, Stefan; Herodotus; Rhodoman, Lorenz; Rhodoman, Lorenz (2019). Der "Arion" des Lorenz Rhodoman: ein altgriechisches Epyllion der Renaissance: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Wortindex. Palingenesia : Schriftenreihe für klassische Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-12412-6.
↑ Jan Křesadlo (Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava); Ace Rockman; Václav ZJ Pinkava (2025-11-26). ASTRONAUTILIA.
↑ Weise, Stefan (2024-01-01), Homeric Robots and Computers in Love: Artificial Intelligence in Jan Křesadlo’s Ancient Greek Epic Astronautilia (1995), pp. 267–286, doi:10.5040/9781350260726.ch-016, ISBN 978-1-350-26069-6, retrieved 2026-09-08
↑ Poliziano, Angelo (2002). Angeli Politiani Liber epigrammatum Graecorum (in Italian). Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. ISBN 978-88-8498-053-3.
↑ Anna Maria : van Schurman (1652). Nobiliss. virginis Annae Mariae à Schurman. Opuscula Hebraea, Graeca, Latina, Gallica, prosaica & metrica (in Latin). National Central Library of Rome. ex officina Joannis à Waesberge.
↑ "Polona". polona.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-09-14.
↑ Pontani, Filippomaria; Weise, Stefan (2021-11-08). The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-065275-8.
↑ "DSpace". udspace.udel.edu. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
↑ Graziano, Domenico (2025-01-01). "On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius' 'Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum': Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek". Hermes – Platform for early modern Hellenism. doi:10.17613/76NPD-XFN77.
↑ Demuynck, A., (2024) “Inverting the Hierarchy. Greek and Latin in a Sixteenth-Century Poetical Encomium of Antwerp”, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 10. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.89653
↑ hermes1517 (2026-06-01). "A "Pindaric Lyre" under the Dragon's Wing: Tito Prospero Martinengo's Greek Poetry". Hermes. Retrieved 2026-09-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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[:0-1] 1 2 Rooy, Raf Van (2023-04-04), New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World, Brill, retrieved 2026-08-26

[:1-2] 1 2 3 4 Lamers, Han; Van Rooy, Raf (2022-03-17). "Graecia Belgica: writing Ancient Greek in the early modern Low Countries". Classical Receptions Journal. 14: 435–462. doi:10.1093/crj/clac004.

[3] Veteikis, Tomas; Malinowski, Gosciwit (2021-01-01). "European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Poland and Lithuania". doi:10.1515/9783110652758-014 – via academia.edu.

[:2-4] 1 2 "CfP New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies". Faculteit Letteren (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-08-26.

[5] "DaLeT". www.dalet.be. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

[6] "Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek Poetry in the Baltic Region: An Anthology". Lund University. Retrieved 2026-08-26.

[7] Päll, Janika; Volt, Ivo (2018-01-01). Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe: Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture.

[8] Rooy, Raf Van (2020-01-10). Greece’s labyrinth of language. Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-210-5.

[9] Weise, Stefan (2016-11-07). "Eλληνίδ̉ αἰ̃αν εỉσιδεῖν ἱμείрομαι – Neualtgriechische Literatur in Deutschland (Versuch eines Überblicks)". Antike und Abendland. 62. doi:10.1515/anab-2016-0109.

[:3-10] 1 2 Weise, Stefan (2024-03-16). "Dialects and Languages in the Poetic Oeuvre of Laurentius Rhodoman (1545–1606)". Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures. 0 (9). doi:10.21825/jolcel.87171. ISSN 2593-743X.

[11] Rhodoman, Lorenz; Weise, Stefan; Herodotus; Rhodoman, Lorenz; Rhodoman, Lorenz (2019). Der "Arion" des Lorenz Rhodoman: ein altgriechisches Epyllion der Renaissance: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Wortindex. Palingenesia : Schriftenreihe für klassische Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-12412-6.

[12] Jan Křesadlo (Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava); Ace Rockman; Václav ZJ Pinkava (2025-11-26). ASTRONAUTILIA.

[13] Weise, Stefan (2024-01-01), Homeric Robots and Computers in Love: Artificial Intelligence in Jan Křesadlo’s Ancient Greek Epic Astronautilia (1995), pp. 267–286, doi:10.5040/9781350260726.ch-016, ISBN 978-1-350-26069-6, retrieved 2026-09-08

[14] Poliziano, Angelo (2002). Angeli Politiani Liber epigrammatum Graecorum (in Italian). Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. ISBN 978-88-8498-053-3.

[15] Anna Maria : van Schurman (1652). Nobiliss. virginis Annae Mariae à Schurman. Opuscula Hebraea, Graeca, Latina, Gallica, prosaica & metrica (in Latin). National Central Library of Rome. ex officina Joannis à Waesberge.

[16] "Polona". polona.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-09-14.

[17] Pontani, Filippomaria; Weise, Stefan (2021-11-08). The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-065275-8.

[18] "DSpace". udspace.udel.edu. Retrieved 2026-09-14.

[19] Graziano, Domenico (2025-01-01). "On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius' 'Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum': Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek". Hermes – Platform for early modern Hellenism. doi:10.17613/76NPD-XFN77.

[20] Demuynck, A., (2024) “Inverting the Hierarchy. Greek and Latin in a Sixteenth-Century Poetical Encomium of Antwerp”, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 10. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.89653

[21] rmes1517 (2026-06-01). "A "Pindaric Lyre" under the Dragon's Wing: Tito Prospero Martinengo's Greek Poetry". Hermes. Retrieved 2026-09-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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Notable works

References