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Should I learn Attic Greek or Latin?

>> No.12527876

>>12527866
well what do you want to read

>> No.12527932

>>12527866
Modern Greek

>> No.12527947

>>12527866
You should learn English

>> No.12527953

why would you not learn koine greek

>> No.12528027

The only reason you made this thread is to indulge your sense of being a person interested in the classics, and the only reason anyone will reply to this thread is to
1. Indulge their sense of knowledge on the classics
2. Make a self referential post attempting to simultaneously be superior to everyone in this thread while also being completely honest and therefore being superior to everyone in this thread.

The only reason someone might reply to this post is to feel superior to its author.

also the answer is Latin

>> No.12528033

>>12527932
Why not, at the very least, learn a little Latin, and even less Greek?

>> No.12528056

>>12527866
Latin. It's easier and it opens up more than Greek.

>> No.12528078

>>12527866
learn Latin and read Attic Greek texts translated to Latin

>> No.12528082

>>12528027
Chad move

>> No.12528140

>>12528027
Great, expert analysis. Now tell us why sizing something up means it has less value?

Also rationales aren’t mutually exclusive. Yes I said that to prove my reasoning is better than yours, but also to verify my reasoning, and participate in a language game on a Mongolian doodles board, as well as an infinite of other, lesser causes some of which are unknowable, even to me.

And patrician choice anon. With Latin you can read translated Ancient Greek texts as a bonus. Like patricians have done for millennia.

>> No.12528618

>>12527866
If youre doing this on your own then begin with Attic and then when feeling comfortable enough move into Latin. I say this for two reasons- Attic is far less idiomatic, i.e. what's written tends to square more clearly with what it attempts to convey; and an understanding of Greek syntax makes Latin lyric alot easier to 'get' --poets like for instance Horace make more logical sense because one almost immediately understands what it is he's 'doing' (i.e. imitating Greek models). Attic was to the Romans what Latin became to the early moderns.

>> No.12528888

>>12527866
If you speak a Romance language already then start with Latin. It'll be an easier way to become acquainted with the idea of cases.
If you're a German speaker and already know these things then go straight for Greek.

>> No.12528929

Latin is probably easier but Greek probably has more interesting stuff to read.
I don't know if it's the translators or what but the syntax of Koine Greek looks closer to modern English than ancient Greek does.

>> No.12528976

>>12528929
No. This is correct. The further one delves into medieval up to early modern Latin the closer the syntactical relations approximate that of modern languages (generally speaking), i.e. become easier to read.

>> No.12529009

There's no point in doing this if you don't already speak two or three languages
Learn how to learn languages before, otherwise you'll have a hard time with these languages and you'll give up on learning them along the way for the wrong reasons

>> No.12529267

Μάθε μοντέρνα ελληνιkά φλώρε.

>> No.12529301

Study both maybe you'll fall in love with one or the other.

>> No.12529309

>>12529267
Αυτό, απλά αυτό.
It's going to help a lot with the ancient language, a bit less than Latin though since it was obsessed with participles too.
https://foundinantiquity.com/2013/12/10/moving-words/comment-page-1/

>> No.12529325

Salvete omnes! Quomodo vos hac die Domini habetis?

>> No.12529328

>>12527866
Greek

>> No.12529361

>>12527876
The Inheritance Cycle

>> No.12529392

How many Latin texts have not been translated to English?

How many Greek texts have not been translated to English?

>> No.12529418

I think greek literature is ultimately more significant and interesting for /lit/ purposes, but I'm studying latin simply because it's much more aesthetic phonetically. I'm sure Plato is just fucking fine translated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzrnEzKbaE

>> No.12529426

>>12529392
There's lots of untranslated Latin texts, especially historical documents. If you're just a casual literature reader, and you're not very strongly devoted to history or philosophy, I can see why you wouldn't care for either language, but if you did, knowing Latin would allow you to access lots of pre-Modern and even Early Modern documents from the history of many European institutions, regional chronicles, the development of Roman Catholic Church doctrine and the birth of the natural sciences.
There's lots of important treaties and law books written in Latin too.