
Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives On in Modern Greek
Homer’s language lives on in modern day Greece. Photo of Book I of Homer’s Iliad. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Homer‘s language—known as Homeric Greek or Epic Greek—was that which was used for the ancient Greek poet’s …