ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ ΘΗΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ (NICOLAUS THESEUS EX CIPRO): ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ ΜΕΤΑ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΠΑΡΑΦΡΑΣΕΩΣ ΕΞ ΙΔΙΟΧΕΙΡΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΓΑΖΗ ΝΥΝ ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΝ ΤΥΠΟΙΣ ΕΚΔΟΘΕΙΣΗΣ ΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΙΘΕΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ…(OMIROU ILIAS).ΦΛΩΡΕΝΤΙΑ (FLORENCE) 1811-1812 First edition, in 8vo,contemporary leather over boards slightly rubbed, complete in two volumes,volume one printed in rare blue paper, illustrated with eighteen (18) fine copper engravings,one of the very first Greek printing efforts so richly illustrated,text clean and bright overall in very good plus condition. An influential edition for the history of Greek litterature and the nation s Enlightenment.It is the very first edition of the translation in modern Greek of Homer Iliad that has been prepared by the famous Renaissance Greek scholar Theodoros Gazis (1400-1475).Gazis escaped in Italy after the fall of Byzantium and prepared this translation as an effort to present Iliad to his contemporaries in a more simple Greek.For centuries has been used as a tool for students to approach Homeric Greek. This famous Florence edition,a landmark of the Greek Enlightenment,represent Greek efforts to reconnect with their illustrious past and published educational books of high level.It has been used widely in high level Greek schools in the early 19th century.