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🧐 Why would a 16-year-old from the Low Countries write an epic poem in Ancient Greek? In c. 1625, Elias Gifford captured the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600) in Homeric verse, sending it to the stadholder. What drew him to Ancient Greek over Latin, French, or Dutch? 📜
🧐 Why would a 16-year-old from the Low Countries write an epic poem in Ancient Greek? In c. 1625, Elias Gifford captured the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600) in Homeric verse, sending it to the stadholder. What drew him to Ancient Greek over Latin, French, or Dutch? 📜
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