How are the online (and real life) communities for Latin and

But it's used by Catholics. In my opinion Jove would be disappointed in you for caring about a language assimilated to Catholicism. Clearly he never liked it himself.

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That is honestly one of the things that makes Latin far more unappealing. About half of the Latin community is Catholic and treat it as a holy Christian language. Even that being said, the neopagan community of Latin is still seemingly larger than the entire Ancient Greek community. Ancient Greek is largely untainted, but it still has some Christians who learn Koine to read the New Testament. Ancient Greek, as a language, is definitely more interested to me, and I feel more of an attachment to it, but I am very much interested in using classical languages as spoken languages and the communities that are devoted to this, and Ancient Greek seems to have a very small community. Odds are I will choose Ancient Greek anyway.

I am also curious about what you mean by 'Clearly he never liked it himself.' I do agree with you already on this point, but I would like to hear what you personally mean by this.

Not hating just curious, but why OP? What draws you to dead languages more than some of the more useful living ones?

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I already know two useful living languages, English and French. These have a lot of speakers, but they are also both entirely modern, and have pretty much no connexion to antiquity or neopaganism (both of which interest me.) Organisations like Nova Roma really interest me though, and I have spoken to a few people online who are involved in these things. I also want to read ancient texts in their original language. Greek poetry, like the Iliad and the Odyssey themselves, do not even maintain their original poëtic merit in English. The dactylic hexameter does not work, and the original word choice becomes meaningless. Reading a translation is reading someone else's interpretation.

All of that being said, I agree with you to some extent. I would not recommend that anyone learn a dead (for now) language if he has not already learned a living one.