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Why learn Ancient Greek?

Greek can change your life like it has changed civilizations!

"En arxn nv o loyoc," or "in the beginning was the Word," is how John's Gospel begins in the original language of the New Testament. The New Testament is but one of many works that is the product of Greek civilization. Greeks can claim that their written corpus is the foundation of Western civilization.


Foundation of Civilization
There actually was a time--not too long ago--where the point of education was to learn Greek. Greece for thousands of years has been the center of Western civilization, beginning with the Minoans on Crete through the Mycenaean period, all surpassed by the glory of classical Athens, followed by Alexander the Great.

Alexander made Greek a world language, conquering vast regions of the Near East. The Hellenization of the Near East is why the later eastern half of the Roman Empire was Greek speaking, and hence the New Testament was originally in Greek.

The heyday of Greek civilization belongs to classical Athens. The fifth century BC was a flourishing of the arts and sciences in Athens. Classical Athens was the setting of the Parthenon and the Acropolis, and the realization of a democracy from which few other cultures until recent centuries could attain.

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