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Messed up that Latin became the language of the intelligentsia in the middle ages and therefore has more pedagogical materials available now, when Greek has classical authors you obviously should care more about. Like, it has the philosophers! Not to mention the New Testament (and the version of the Hebrew Bible that the authors of the New Testament were familiar with), the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Greek myths (let's be real nobody cares more about Roman myths than Greek myths). Yes, it's cool that Latin has De Rerum Natura, Apuleius, and Cato, and the tradition of scholarship is a nice bonus. But c'mon!
in reply to Daniel Filan

I guess the Aeneid is a proper development on the comparable Greek writings.
in reply to Daniel Filan

I further guess this is a cautionary tale about the tradeoff between writing and conquering.
in reply to Daniel Filan

Tbf I think the Romans owned this, they were like 'the Greeks theorize, we get shit done'
in reply to Amber Dawn

It's like the LessWrongers and the EAs. As a LWer myself, I know where my sympathies lie...
in reply to Daniel Filan

Counter-argument: the point of learning an ancient language is to read the poetry not the prose (since prose is easily translated) and Latin poetry is plausibly better than Greek poetry.