Learning Greek will definitely give you a much broader understanging

>>8798620

With the possible exception of the last clause, this is all true

>some of the greatest prose and verse
I have to say that I haven't heard of much greek prose. Any recs?

You can't learn greek, baka

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how to learn how to read the greek?

not modern TURKISH greek btw

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>learning a language of irrelevant pedophiles who wrote some gay ass philosophy when you could be learning latin, a language of the greatest Empire in history, medieval Europe, and Renaissance

>>8798796
Yeah but everyone (worth talking to) had Latin in high school and you don't need to learn a language twice

>>8798752
Plato's The Republic

>>8798796

I love Latin too but there is objectively more great Greek lit than Latin lit.

In Latin, who do you really have besides Cicero, Caesar, Terence, Livy, Sallust, Suetonius, Pliny II, Seneca II, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Apuleius, Petronius? I know I'm missing some stuff but that's truly not very much /lit/, it takes up maybe four feet of shelf space and it's mostly Cicero.

Also you miss a lot in Latin not knowing Greek. It is very cool, for example, to compare Theocritus and Virgil's Eclogues, or Plato's Myth of Er and Cicero's Dream of Scipio, or Catullus and Sappho.

>>8798856
You only named Old and Classical Latin writers. There's much more in Late Antique, Medieval, Modern, and New Latin. Latin has much more variety than Ancient Greek.

>>8798922

Yeah I know there's plenty of post-classical stuff that's worth reading but you can say the same thing about Greek. In fact ancient Greek has had much more staying power in the Greek world than Latin has had in the West. There is (I'm told) tons of good stuff from the 19th and 20th centuries written in classical Greek, or something very close to it.

This is a really stupid argument though, either one is good to know depending on what you're interested in, and it's even better to know both.

>>8798922
They wrote in Koine Greek up until roughly the time when Christians stamped out Greek Philosophy. That's not far off from a thousand years of additionally writings beyond what people normally think of when they think of Greek literature.