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>latin
>ancient greek
What's your choice, /lit/?

>> No.12378735

>>12378729
The writings of Paul, and the apostles of course.

>> No.12378736

Easy on the Bugs there, an*n

>> No.12378738

>>12378729
big

>> No.12378740

american

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>>12378735
So, Greek

>> No.12379214

please give me advice

>> No.12379248

I did Latin at uni and it wasn't THAT hard. Pain in the ass memorising all the tables, but the more work you put in it the more you'll get out. The basics come quickly, but then you actually try translating.

Just so you know actually reading Latin is quite different from what you're taught in books. The Romans didn't follow their own grammar rules some of the time, and it makes it very difficult to understand what's going on. Most authors also have very distinct styles, and when you consider the gaps of time you're dealing between works and the evolution of language it makes it even more difficult. Once you master one author and get decent at reading and translating what he's saying, you will want to move on and it will feel like you're starting from scratch. I would say you definitely need someone who knows their shit if you're trying to embark on actually being able to read classical works in Latin. Alone it will take you make years, and you will make mistakes constantly without realising it, thinking to yourself "oh why is the translation saying this when it should actually be this?". I was BTFO constantly before I got even remotely decent at reading Cicero, and even now after 3 years it's a struggle.

>> No.12379281

why not both.jpg

>> No.12379296

/lit/'s choice is to endlessly make shitty threads like these while remaining a monolingual anglo subhuman

>> No.12379317

>>12378729
You learn Latin then Greek. Greek is colossally hard for anyone who is learning a foreign language for the first time.

>> No.12379319

>>12378729
C H U
N
G U S

>> No.12379321

>>12379214
Learning Greek will allow you to read Homer, the Tragedians, Pindar, Sappho, the Pre-Socratic philosophers, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, the New Testament, Plutarch, Euclid, Epictetus, Plotinus, and some of the Church Fathers.
Learning Latin will allow you to read Cicero, Livy, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Seneca, Suetonius, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Apuleius, St. Augustine, Boethius, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes' Meditations, Spinoza's Ethics, Newton's Principia Mathematica.
Which do you prefer? The Iliad or the Aeneid? Hesiod or Ovid? Seneca or Epictetus? Thucydides or Livy? Demosthenes or Cicero? Aristophanes or Plautus?

>> No.12379450

>>12379321
what if I like some from one list and some from the other? I realistically cannot learn both, I already can read 4 languages and it is not realistic to keep more than one more maintained. I prefer Livy to Thucydides, and am interested in the later Church writers, I love Ovid and Suetonius, but I love Plutarch and the Iliad. fug I'm so torn. I feel like with Greek it's cool because you lose more in translation since it's so different to other languages I speak, but Latin is the basis of our civilization, so I think I should learn it too.

>> No.12379454

>>12378729
>>12378729
>Latin for Plebs, Ancient Greek for Patricians

That said, I prefer the way Latin sounds, and is what I am currently learning

>> No.12379461

>>12378729
obviously Latin. learning ancient greek is a meme. No one actually does it sans the most boring people on the planet: classics scholars. Whereas Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, etc. all had a command of latin.

>> No.12379476

>>12379296
They're American sweaty not anglo

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Coptic

>> No.12380910

>>12378729
>that filename
Remove yourself from /lit/.

>> No.12380947

>>12378729
Sweet chungus, my dude

>> No.12381004

If you learn Greek you can read the most important thinkers that ever lived, including the correct Church Fathers.

>> No.12381042

>>12378738
>>12379319
>>12380947
Easy on the reddit.

>> No.12381133

>>12378729
latin
it's simple, logical, and straightforward
ancient greek is a fucking mess, it doesn't make any sense and you have shit like aorist passive

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>>12378729
Learn Spanish Ryan ; )

>> No.12382687

>>12379461
this has so far been the most convincing comment

>> No.12382772

>>12381042
Upboated

>> No.12382788

>mfw i think other people are devoided of emotions or aren't conscious thus any action with them is pure redundant.
Basically I can do whatever I please to them without feeling any pity or remorse for them.
I get more power by making people servients in the social realm.

What is the best philosophy than fit in my view of the world and books on it?

>> No.12383039

>>12381042
Tourist core fag

>> No.12383243

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MY

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>> No.12383275

>>12382788
Try Aristippus, Epicurus, Marquis de Sade, and spookboy.

>> No.12383367

>>12378729
Greek is way better, since it allows you to access texts by Sisterhood of the Knot, which are quite numerous and contain some pretty good incantations. Latin is only good for entry level shit like De Horis, barely worth your time desu.

>> No.12383372

>>12378729
greek bruh, easy choice

>> No.12383426

lingua gr*eca foeda est

>> No.12383527

>>12383275
you dont know what epicureanism idiot

>> No.12383745

>>12383372
why?

>> No.12383918

>>12378729
I prefer a language that didn't die before the birth of my nation

>> No.12384084

>>12383918
t. nation agelet

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>>12378729
Russian.

>> No.12384397

>chungus.jpg