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However, I can hardly read Ancient Greek as a modern Greek speaker!
by sotix 10mo ago
However, I can hardly read Ancient Greek as a modern Greek speaker!
- cgio 10mo agoThe point is for it to be hard.
- sotix 10mo agoBorderline impossible! It's a much wider gap than modern English to Shakespearean English is.
- HeinzStuckeIt 10mo agoThere’s got to be a chronological point where older Greek gets much easier, though. Or at least, there was back when Greeks still had to work with katharevousa in school. I learned both Ancient Greek and then, though a year spent in Greece, Modern Greek. When I pick up late Hellenistic literature like Achilles Tatius, I feel like it is activating more the Modern Greek part of my brain than the 5th-century BC Athens part of my brain.