Nothing cringe about the byzantines, I study the Romans myself, so I have no room to judge. If you could learn Koine or Attic it would still be useful, given some of byzantine history would still have been using koine for the lower classes and some attic for the upper. I guess I'm biased though, the only kind of Greek I know is attic. Regardless, good luck with your studies! Καί χαιρε εν τον χρονον νεον!
Yes but no but kinda. Although definitely a part of the roman system, Byzantium definitely went more Greek in some ways than Rome, and had several marked unique cultural developments. Were they roman? Yes. But is it different enough to be a distinguishable period of history? Also yes.
You can find Koine Greek (which is way closer than Classical to Modern Greek) fairly easily, but again that's 500 years earlier than you want. I've found with Romance languages, once you pick up one (especially if it's Latin) all the others fall into place easily, so if you can learn one type of Greek the others should be learnable too.
Mine was the opposite, Latin but no Greek. Luckily a Greek Ancient History professor which taught me the few rudiments I ended up knowing, mostly so I could stumble through Mycenaean tablets. Which probably has not done much for my Classical Greek either.
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Nothing cringe about the byzantines, I study the Romans myself, so I have no room to judge. If you could learn Koine or Attic it would still be useful, given some of byzantine history would still have been using koine for the lower classes and some attic for the upper. I guess I'm biased though, the only kind of Greek I know is attic. Regardless, good luck with your studies! Καί χαιρε εν τον χρονον νεον!
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Yes but no but kinda. Although definitely a part of the roman system, Byzantium definitely went more Greek in some ways than Rome, and had several marked unique cultural developments. Were they roman? Yes. But is it different enough to be a distinguishable period of history? Also yes.
You can find Koine Greek (which is way closer than Classical to Modern Greek) fairly easily, but again that's 500 years earlier than you want. I've found with Romance languages, once you pick up one (especially if it's Latin) all the others fall into place easily, so if you can learn one type of Greek the others should be learnable too.
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Mine was the opposite, Latin but no Greek. Luckily a Greek Ancient History professor which taught me the few rudiments I ended up knowing, mostly so I could stumble through Mycenaean tablets. Which probably has not done much for my Classical Greek either.