On the Invention of the Hellenistic Age

More from Pfeiffer, this time on Claudius Salmasius (1588-1653): In 1632, after the chair had been vacant for twenty-three years, [Salmasius] became S

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On the Versification of the Bible

No, not as in paraphrasing the Bible in meter (though I’m interested in that, too), but as in actually placing verse-divisions in the text, accomplish

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Melanchthon’s Family Tree

I did not know that Melanchthon was a relative of Johannes Reuchlin, ‘the first great exponent of Greek studies in Germany’ (Pfeiffer, vol. 2, p. 86).

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