Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

With the synthesis of vital form and formal beauty which marked the birth of Humanism, the Greek sculptors of the Fifth Century B.C. opened up a new dimension of human consciousness, Sir Herbert ...

The leader of the porject is Johanna Akujärvi from Lund University. One of the aims of the project is to creat a HUG-Database. It will be a bibliography of Humanist Greek manuscripts and imprints from ...