Nah, this kind of disagreement is good. We're both Greek speakers (at least fluent readers, in my case), and we had a scholarly argument. You just took a slightly arrogant tone, which I'm sort of used to from modern Greeks. I got defensive.

Many modern Greek speakers will not admit that ancient Greek was a very different language in some respects (like Old English and English). I get frustrated when that happens, and the argument's been made to me that 'I'm Greek, I know better.' I really take issue with people that do that (not only because it's a fallacy, but because it's really annoying and a cop out). I've spent a very long time studying ancient Greek culture and civilization. Though I deal a lot with the bronze age in Greece (because I'm primarily a near eastern scholar, specializing in mesopotamia), but I have a love affair with the classical world as well (Carthage foremost, but the Greeks and Successors second).