Latin vs Greek?

Alumother
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:50:07 +0000

I was a Comp Lit major. French and Italian. Took one year of Latin in college. Found Latin literature, i.e. Aeneid etc. to be way more boring in translation than Greek literature. I first read the Illiad in a kid’s translation when I was 10 or 11 and never forgot it. Wished I could have read it in Greek.

When we say, more useful, the question is, “Useful for what?”

Useful for meeting college admissions requirements - ask your GC
Useful for learning systematic grammar - OK maybe Latin
Useful for reading moving literature from over 2000 years ago - I say Greek
Useful for impressing people that you must be smart - Again, I say Greek, just for the weirdness factor:)

At the end of the day, if your GC says it’s OK for colleges that he switched, just let the kid decide…I mean, maybe there are cuter girls in the Honors Greek?