Ancient Greek and Latin

I am preparing for the PhD pursuit by studying both Ancient Greek and Latin.  Ancient Greek has the same basic structure as its Modern counterpart but the words have changed in 2500 years.  Like its modern day version, Ancient Greek has a dizzying number of endings you have to keep straight.  Lifelong experience with Greek helps but, remember, the words are still different.  It is interesting to know that is the language spoken by Miltiades and Xenophon and company...

Latin never died out.  It just evolved into Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, and Portuguese.  No, I did not forget Catalan on the east side of Spain but I am not wandering into that debate!  Aside form the weird habit of placing the verb at the end of the sentence, Latin is not that difficult.  Again, there are a bunch of endings to memorize for the verbs but if you know Spanish, you see the link.

Back to Greece--Modern instead of Ancient--and the elections they are holding today.....but instead of 480 BC and battles against Persians, I am in 2012 AD watching battles against bankers.

I am not sure which is more vicious...