Starting with the Greeks

>starting with the Greeks
>not starting with Greek

You're not gonna make it.

>not starting with Linear A
Just give up.

What the shit is going on with that passage

Were the Greeks redpilled?

It's proper Greek miniscule, like manuscript writing with lots of ligatures and special symbols. It's really surprising that people in the renaissance actually preferred it in their printed books to something more pared down like we use now but people who read Greek in the renaissance were not like anyone alive today.

Type-faces for Greek often included over a thousand symbols. Imagine how much of a pain in the ass it would be to typeset a page like that.

I do think it's pretty though. Easiest way to pick it up is to find a renaissance printing on google books of something you've already read.

Everything Plato wrote was super fucking straightforward and you're not going to get any additional value out of learning a dead language. Seriously

Later philosophy was hella complicated and not in Greek so

I agree but there's a lot more to Greek than Greek philosophy. Plato does hold up very well in translation.

People learning Greek probably want to read the poetry.

You're fucking delusional if you think you can audidact your way through an ancient language to a sufficient degree, unless you dedicate all your fucking time to it.
Like
says, your time would be better spent actually reading translated, and maybe studying linguistics if you're so anal about that.

Yes, if you had started with the greeks you would know that