Hellénisme

experience. His Commentarii linguae graecae (1529) made him the foremost Greek scholar in Europe and this work, together with his influence in persuading François I to appoint royal ‘readers’ in Latin, Greek and Hebrew at the Collège royal in 1530, placed Hellenism high on the list of Renaissance concerns. Like many of his generation, he was anxious to show that there was no contradiction between ancient philosophy and Christianity. Thus De transitu hellenismi ad christianismum (1535), published at a sensitive