Griechisch lernen an der Universität Wittenberg? Ein unbekanntes Handbuch des Lorenz Rhodoman (HAAB Weimar, Oct 141)

The chapter aims at presenting a handbook for Greek language teaching, which Lorenz Rhodoman set up between the 16th and the 17th century (HAAB Weimar, Oct 141). The core of the book is one of several Erasmus editions of Latin pedagogical and paraenetic texts (Magdeburg 1578, apud Wolfgang Kirchner), extended with selected texts written down from contemporary printed editions. Furthermore, the book contains a so far unknown Greek translation of the Disticha Catonis and some of the other texts. The inquiry of the artefacts shows that this book was set up ad usum scholarum. This chapter intends to provide an overview of Rhodoman’s sources as well as his teaching methods, which led to the setting up of this singular book.