By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University Classical Gains: How world languages enriched the Scottish cultural landscape THE languages of Scottish Literature are normally understood to be Gaelic, Scots and English. But there’s a lot more to it than that, as Alan Riach and Alexander Broadie look beyond the immediate horizon to Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Muslim traditions … Alan Riach: Alexander, we were talking last week about Scotland’s Latin writers but behind or alongside them there’s the Greek influence too, isn’t there? Alexander Broadie: Around about 1510, Jerome Aleandro came to Paris offering to teach Greek. At first the authorities were reluctant because they understood that if the students studied Greek they might be able to study the New Testament in the original, and then wonder about the accuracy of the Latin version in daily use. Anyhow, Aleandro did teach Greek there and among his students were the Scots John Mair and David Cranston, priest of the Glasgow diocese.