Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His fields of interest are late humanism in Germany and the role of the Classical tradition and Orientalism in seventeenth and eighteenth century scholarship.

• AcknowledgementsNote on names and abbreviationsIntroduction1 Greek Antiquity in Lutheran Universal History2 Lutheran Humanists and Byzantium: The Scope of Greek Antiquity3 Lutheran Humanists on Greek: The History of Greek and Greek in History4 Some Lutheran Readings of Greek Texts5 Graecia transvolavit AlpesConclusionBibliographyIndex

"The work of Ben-Tov, written in a clear and concise style, is a constructive and stimulating read, not only for the historian of the Modern period, but also for the classicist and the byzantinist."Luigi Silviano, MEG no. 11, 281-284

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His fields of interest are late humanism in Germany and the role of the Classical tradition and Orientalism in seventeenth and eighteenth century scholarship.

• AcknowledgementsNote on names and abbreviationsIntroduction1 Greek Antiquity in Lutheran Universal History2 Lutheran Humanists and Byzantium: The Scope of Greek Antiquity3 Lutheran Humanists on Greek: The History of Greek and Greek in History4 Some Lutheran Readings of Greek Texts5 Graecia transvolavit AlpesConclusionBibliographyIndex

"The work of Ben-Tov, written in a clear and concise style, is a constructive and stimulating read, not only for the historian of the Modern period, but also for the classicist and the byzantinist."Luigi Silviano, MEG no. 11, 281-284

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His fields of interest are late humanism in Germany and the role of the Classical tradition and Orientalism in seventeenth and eighteenth century scholarship.

• AcknowledgementsNote on names and abbreviationsIntroduction1 Greek Antiquity in Lutheran Universal History2 Lutheran Humanists and Byzantium: The Scope of Greek Antiquity3 Lutheran Humanists on Greek: The History of Greek and Greek in History4 Some Lutheran Readings of Greek Texts5 Graecia transvolavit AlpesConclusionBibliographyIndex

"The work of Ben-Tov, written in a clear and concise style, is a constructive and stimulating read, not only for the historian of the Modern period, but also for the classicist and the byzantinist."Luigi Silviano, MEG no. 11, 281-284