Crazy question, but if it was Latin OR greek which would you pick. Latin for it’s order and clarity of expression or greek for the literature and philosophy?
Damn what an unfair question.
Greek.
That took me a total of half a second to decide. But in addition to my preference for its literature over Latin’s (though I am, in my limited free time, trying to expand my awareness of Latin literature too) I like the fact that it is older, I like that its vocabulary is less familiar (yes, when it’s not hair-tearingly frustrating, having a language where the vocabulary has less in common with your own can be more fun - you are not as tired of the words), and I generally find Greek culture more fascinating than Roman/Medieval culture. Oh, and I also appreciate the fact that it has a different alphabet - it’s a darn easy alphabet to learn, but it’s still different, so again, it looks fresher than the tired old Roman alphabet.
Biased, aren’t I.
Latin.
It’s more useful to me and it’s more widely spoken, it’s easy to teach the basics. The vocabulary is similar enough to spanish that Latin is actually helping me out with learning Spanish. lol. I told my friend that su prima es _f_ormosa and he understood me because he had read Don Quixote and apparently the ‘f’ in formosa hadn’t changed to the ‘h’ in hermosa by then… lol and I’m loving Ovid’s stuff right now. Not a huge fan of El Cicero, but I don’t think I would be, even were it written in english. I like Roman culture a bit more than Greek culture, though I can’t say that I don’t like Greek culture, too. because that would be a lie. I also like Medieval history. I like Milton. It’s neat to just know alot of cool legal jargon (and to unabashedly split infinitives XD). I happen to like the alphabet. But then again, I don’t know Greek. I don’t grok it. and I’ve taken to translating Chuck Norris facts into latin, though I can’t take credit for the one in my signature.
-Jon
Greek for its clarity of expression. (And for its literature as well. Philosophy? Not really.)
I take issue with the idea that latin prevails in “clarity of expression.” latin is incredibly vague.
I can’t really answer this question. I don’t know. I might go for Latin ultimately, because I find Roman culture more interesting; also it is used through the middle ages, which is a fascinating period.
I prefer Greek literature overall though. and philosophy!
That’s 0.499999999 seconds too long, GGG. I am surprised it took you more than a nanosecond to decide. 
Greek all the way, Turendil!
I agree with GGG-practically every aspect of Greek civilization is endlessly fascinating. I am very interested in a lot of Roman and Medieval topics too, but Greece can easily become an obsession. How about this-wouldn’t it be great if we could reverse the amount of difficulty? I mean, what if Greek was as easy as Latin, and Latin was as hard as Greek? I wouldn’t mind! Paige.
Latin. I’ve admired the Roman mindset moreso than the Greek mindset more. Oh and their military owned.
Koine greek attracts me more than classical Attic greek does though. In fact:
Latin
Koine
Homeric
Attic
I just can’t stand Attic.
What do you mean?
That’s strange. Koine >okay. Homeric >okay. Attic > noway. Why is that?
Well I have no reason to study latin. Even if I would have time for a second language that would be chinese.
Latin: the language of Western philosophy and theology - but with a heavy heart.
JPII said the Church needs to breathe with both lungs, I believe so also does European culture. Right now, I think most folks are on a respirator.
Seán
while I agree with you, the greek military system was pretty badass for it’s time, too. obviously you can’t compare the later roman war machine to something that came so much earlier. But whatever. The roman system of warfare did, in fact, own. i would venture as far as to say that it was the Shiznit. 
-Jon
Linguam latinam malo ob philosophiam maedievalem. Philosophia graeca sua tempora adhuc imperfecta erat. 
Et philosophia mediaevalis perfecta est?
Ah, beautiful!
I am into Greek right now, but Latin is on the backburner only for a while.
Ita.
Well I would choose ancient 
Greek but I’m so biased for so many different reasons it’s not even funny and therefore my opinion shouldn’t even count. Anyway, the thing is, I didn’t get to choose to study ancient Greek (it’s a required course in highschool you see) but because of the field of studies I chose to pursue I sort of chose to study Latin so there must be an irony hidden somewhere there I’m sure
ego concurrere non possum. sed quid novi?
In my opinion, there’s no contest. Greek is the key to the beginnings of Western culture and the reason we are what we are: for better or worse. I personally don’t see the “clarity of expression” that Turendil talks about in Latin. Latin is really a blunt instrument compared with English; never mind Greek.
Now IF Latin were still the universal medium of intellectual communication (if only!) I’d change my vote, but that hasn’t been the case for at least 300 years.