Do I learn Latin or Greek? Which is harder?
>>18496588Latin is easier, but the authors have their own idiosyncrasies. Ancient Greek is pretty complex and because the textual corpus is over like two thousand years you have a lot of diversity.Really, study what you want, but remember this: for the most part, any text you'll read has already been translated, any primary sources you read will have many secondary sources backed up by archaeological evidence and historiographical methods to uncover what really happened. Do it because you like it and find the language and culture interesting, and want to feel connected to them.
>>18496588Learn Greek because it has richer literature
>>18496593I heard that Latin and Greek are inflection nightmares, with hundreds of forms of the same word. How true is this? Do I literally need to memorize literally hundreds of forms of literally the same word? How do you make any progress?
>>18496602Not hundreds, but a shit ton, yeah. I mean, for words you have like 6 declensions. For verbs, yeah, it's a lot, but there are patterns. Really, you memorize the patterns, and when you see a verb inflected, you think back to both its infinitive form (or whatever its equivalent is that you learned) and then what the inflection makes it mean.
>>18496606Idk about Latin but Greek only has 3 declension, first, second, and third. Latin has 6 declensions? Do you mean cases? Greek has five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. These cases may also have different forms, like there is the possessive genitive, the subjective genitive, objective genitive genitive of origin, genitive absolute, comparative genitive, or there's also like subject nominative, predicative nominative, pendent nominative.
>>18496602They all follow the same patterns.Horse -> horsesdog -> dogsLearning those patterns is a bit of a pain though. Latin nouns have 5-6 cases in singular/plural, and 100ish forms of a typical verb iirc. Greek would be similar.
>>18496695hippos -> hippoikuon -> kunes:)
>>18496588Learning and really engaging with greek and reading homerus is probably more likely and liable to fuck a motherfucker up in the short term than learning latin would probably get to be is what i would claim
>>18497154how does ancient Greek fuck you up?
