On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck team was well represented and contributed five papers listed here in alphabetical order:

William M. Barton: “From the Metropolitan’s Son…”: Two Letters to Jakob Zwinger from Emmanuel Achilles of Thessaloniki (1599).

Alexia Dedieu: Performing Epic in New Ancient Greek: Michael Boschius’ Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad for the Stage.

Tobias Heiss: “Οὐδεὶς ἀνελλήνιστος εἰσίτω, i.e. nemo, linguae ignarus Graecae, introito”: Audience and Performance in Greek Orations from the University of Altdorf (1623–1713).

Mariia Hrynevych: Between Philology and Fiction: K. B. Hase and the Boundaries of New Ancient Greek Literature.

Lev Shadrin: Tracing Byzantine Influence in the Private Greek Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase.