Hellenic Quest refers to an urban legend mostly praising the Greek Language for its superiority among all languages. According to the Hellenic Quest story, CNN has reported that Apple Computer is supposedly developing a software product for teaching the Ancient Greek language to foreigners and scientists.
This is in light of the upcoming development of supercomputers that will use Ancient Greek as their programming interface, due to this language’s logical structure. A prototype computer that is allegedly under development as part of this project is called Ibycus.
Hellenic Quest is destined, at first, for Spanish and English speakers. The text reportedly contains a number of factual errors, unproved assertions and exaggerations. The story is sometimes enhanced with linguistic-sounding arguments.
For example, it contains obscure references to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a project undertaken by the University of California-Irvine for the purpose of digitizing all ancient and medieval Greek texts. The computer prototype Ibycus is the operating system implemented by David W. Packard in the early 1980’s to search and browse TLG texts represented in Beta Code.
English businessmen urged officials to learn Ancient Greek because they said it’s important for the methods of business organization. This interest derived from scientific evidence which accepts Ancient Greek as the only sign language. All other languages are characterized as semiotic.
For these reasons, Spanish MPs demanded the Greek language be established as the official language in the EU.
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