The Origins of Greek Words in English

The Romans were fascinated by Greek culture, and they generally sought to adopt the best parts of it into Roman culture. So a lot of the Latin words which English adopted had Greek origins. The next major deposit of Greek words occurred during and after the Renaissance in the late Middle Ages. In this episode, I'm going to look at the settlement of the first Indo-Europeans into Anatolia and Greece,. And I'll explore the rise and fall of the Hittite Empire and the first Greek civilization.