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Nietzsche's point has nothing to do with linguistic proficiency. Basically no Greeks of the attic era would have learned any other languages, except maybe a tra
by efficax 5y ago
Nietzsche's point has nothing to do with linguistic proficiency. Basically no Greeks of the attic era would have learned any other languages, except maybe a trader or merchant. Even Aristotle could not speak any other language than Greek...
- jhbadger 5y agoNot all of them were ignorant of foreign languages. Xenophon ("Foreign Talker") is literally called that because he knew Persian. And his Anabasis is considered one of the best works in Attic Greek.