Is it worth learning Latin/Ancient Greek so you can read classical

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>>9202468
No. NO. Not at all. It is terrible and a waste of time and money.
Also every one in the field is a spoiled rich whore who is only there because J.K. Rowling majored in it.
I am filled with Rage.

certainly, especially when it comes to verse (there are some exceptions to this e.g. Tacitus)
Most of the brilliance of the texts are lost in translation. (the word order / grammatical constructions are so different that it is impossible to translate the meaning produced by word order, and this is only one example of the many losses in translation)

>>9202687
*is not are

>>9202676
He didn't say he was going to school for Classics, he's asking about learning Greek and Latin, which you can of course do on your own for free.

>>9202468
sure. i'd recommend you get one where they teach you how to speak it as well since reciting ancient poetry is really how it should be

>>9202468
Once the classic Greek verbal system snaps into place modern languages will disappoint you. Severely. Ideas spin as if of their own accord out of this language, its orientation is on the verb, not the noun, movement, not things. Learn it not for the poetry the philosophy or for whatever else. Learn it for yourself.

>>9202468
Yes.
>>9202676
Middlebrow brainlet.

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>>9202468
Start with Latin, then move onto Greek when you have pretty much mastered the former.