The Greek Language and the Byzantine Sources in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Historical Works

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Pages: 421-427

Abstract:

Prince Dimitrie Cantemir was the first personality of encyclopaedical intellect in Romanian culture and also the most important Romanian writer who used Latin in his works. Though, his intellectual background had been under the influence of Greek culture, following the fashion of those times. This influence was expressed, in Cantemir’s works, mainly at lexical level; the author oscillated between the adaptation of Greek words to the standards of Latin and their use in the original form. Regarding the Byzantine bibliographical sources written in Greek, Dimitrie Cantemir used them in a critical manner and circumscribed them to his own vision on history as a science.

Keywords:

Cultural background, Romanian voievods, Phanar, latinization, citation and paraphrase, bilingual editions

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