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does that mean I won't be able to read Homer if I only learn Attic Greek. I'm screwed as it will be too hard to learn too many dialects of a dead langugage.

So do I also have to Aeolic and Doric in addition to understand Homer? I just wanted to read a little here and there.

For me to learn this stuff, I'll need to relearn linear algebra to route my vectors in order to reroute my classes of verbs and which dialects have dual and which don't. Might as well learn Linear B as a phonemic, syllabary. Mycenean here I come. Might as well throw in Syriac.

I just wanted to read Homer and the Bible was that too much to ask?