Challenge: Greek Language

Blackwood

Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to make the Greek language (doesn't necessarily have to be Modern Greek, it could be Ancient) the predominant language of culture in the world*, sort of like Latin has been for centuries. You must do this with a POD after 1453. Good luck!

(I hope this gets some replies, it could be very interesting.)


*Note
- if you already believe that Greek is the predominant language of culture in the world, please explain why. :)
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to make the Greek language (doesn't necessarily have to be Modern Greek, it could be Ancient) the predominant language of culture in the world*, sort of like Latin has been for centuries. You must do this with a POD after 1453. Good luck!

(I hope this gets some replies, it could be very interesting.)


*Note
- if you already believe that Greek is the predominant language of culture in the world, please explain why. :)

Unless that BC it's ASB
 
Actually, I don't remember details but there was a sort of early 15th century Greek Renaissance including the study of Attic Greek in a parallel to the revival in Italy of Classical Latin. It's odd but not impossible to imagine that say, Venice to begin with, could reintroduce Attic Greek into Italy and have it displace Latin as the TRUE language of culture.

Afterward, for Attic Greek to remain dominant we need a longer and quirkier Renaissance, a very different Enlightenment, and cultural/philosophical movements succeeding these to preserve the Attic ideal.
 
Unless that BC it's ASB
I agree, by that time Greek had even lost some influence in the Orthodox church, many Orthodox states began to make their churches more autonomous so Slavonic languages began to gain ground.
By 1453 there was no state that could have used it's political influence to expand the Greek language, because there was no powerful state with a politically active Greek population and no prospects for a new one in the near future.
I "could" see this happening in the 13th century but later...
 
What if the church-against-man ideology of the Rennaisance is taken further by important culture creators (scientists, painters, writers, you name it) choosing to use Greek rather than Latin as their lingua franca in order to oppose what they perceive as the "heavy hand of the church"? Add to that an increasing sentiment for the Orthodoxes in the Balkans who are being subjugated by the "evil heathen Ottomans" and you have enough ground for Greek to flourish.
 
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