ONE MORE NOTE ON ROMAN GREEK | 2005-05-14
I happened to be watching a documentary on the ancient city of Herculaneum, which was buried at the same time Pompeii was. They found a library, but the scrolls had all been reduced to ashes. That did not stop Western science.
They are now restoring the wording on those burned ancient scrolls.
They found that most of the scrolls were in Greek. They said this might seem strange, but in the first century AD the language of scholars was Greek, not Latin.
Which is what I have been talking about.