Latin or Ancient Greek

[Anonymous No.11793597]

Which language is more useful?

[Anonymous No.11793605]

latin

[Anonymous No.11793607]

You could learn Sanskrit or Mandarin and read ancient texts in a language that isn't dead too.

[Anonymous No.11793667]

>>11793597
latin

even if greek were more useful, you probably want to learn both eventually, right? in which case you'd start with latin anyway.

[Anonymous No.11793848]

English
everything important has been translated

[Anonymous No.11793867]

old english

[Anonymous No.11793870]

You'll have much more to read with Laitn

[Anonymous No.11793896]

>>11793597

Latin is certainly easier because of the alphabet, and someone with a comprehensive english vocabulary ought to be able to recognize a good deal of latin words right off the bat. Greek on the other hand is a more intellectual language, if you don't believe me ask Caesar, and learning it will help you get past the translation errors (intentional changes) well meaning past theologians have made over the years. It's also way harder, so depends on how you like challenge.

[Anonymous No.11793916]

>>11793597
Greek has Homer, the bible, Plato, Plutarch, the neoplatonists, not to mention the hermetica and greek magical papyri. To coin the old meme, latin is for virgins and greek is for chads.

Also don't even try to learn sanskrit until you at least know greek and/or latin.

[Anonymous No.11793956]

>>11793597
It depends on what you want to read, but generally speaking Latin will be more useful. There's all the Roman literature (Ovid, Terrence, Lucrece, Vergil, etc.) plus the scholastic philosophers and people like Decartes and Spinoza. Not to mention the fact that learning Latin will expand your English vocabulary and make learning almost all Romance languages a piece of cake.

Ancient Greek is great too, and there is likewise enough literature to keep you busy for a lifetime, but it is definitely more limited in its use than Latin.

It's a personal choice, but you could definitely learn both if you're willing to put in the time and work.

[Anonymous No.11793969]

Latin, but what is the context of that pic

[Anonymous No.11793985]

>>11793667
not necessarily true; if anon starts with Greek he'll actually have a leg up on most people who start with Latin first

>>11793848
kill yourself

>>11793896
the alphabet is such a minor beginning stumbling block that it's misleading to weigh it in this consideration. Also, just being able to recognize english cognates doesn't do shit for revealing the real layers of meaning of a Latin text. Just because Greek is more alien to our current use of language really doesn't make it more intellectual; if anything it opens up a range of further artistic capabilities in its literature (see: J.D. Denniston's Greek Prose Style)

>>11793916
based

>>11793956
this is the only fair pro-Latin assessment itt

[Anonymous No.11793990]

Neither

[Anonymous No.11794147]

>>11793597
Sanskrit.

[Anonymous No.11794157]

>>11793969
A cow got out of a slaughter truck in germany and ran wild through a store before being shot by local law emforcement near the meat aisle.

[Anonymous No.11794175]

>>11793848
3/10

[Anonymous No.11794213]

>>11793597
What do you want to read?

[Anonymous No.11794236]

>>11794213
Not him but I'd like to read neo-platonists and similar texts but it's a bit divided, right?

[Anonymous No.11794253]

>>11794236
Learn Greek

[Anonymous No.11794936]

>>11793985
>the alphabet is such a minor beginning stumbling block that it's misleading to weigh it in this consideration. Also, just being able to recognize english cognates doesn't do shit for revealing the real layers of meaning of a Latin text. Just because Greek is more alien to our current use of language really doesn't make it more intellectual; if anything it opens up a range of further artistic capabilities in its literature (see: J.D. Denniston's Greek Prose Style)

I implied by my Caesar reference that I was viewing things the way the ancients did. Sure we've had a couple thousand years since for Latin to get an edge, but as a classicist I could really give a shit.