Countries where Ancient Greek is taught at schools, Europe

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Redex68@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

So everywhere except for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and where there's no data.

Also a bad choice to put no data and no on the same color.

sasquash471@feddit.de · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

this is simply wrong, probably for all countries besides Greece itself. I never had it in school and I never heard of such a thing.

AntifaNI@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

In Ireland its still theoretically an option (as in there is an end-of-school exam one can take in the subject) however its only available in a tiny handful of schools nowadays.

It was more widespread in the first half of the last century.

Kallioapina@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

This is just plain wrong on Finlands part. I'm a native, and I have NEVER heard of ancient (or modern) greek as taught at all or even as an elective. Few niche university programs in a couple of uni's do offer that though, but in elementary or secondary school... Just plain untrue.

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I'm guessing that this just means that there's at least a single school willing to teach it, it certainly isn't all of them.

ghost_of_snowflake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

That doesn't mean a whole lot. If one school in the country offers an elective, is the country highlighted? Certainly we didn't have widespread classes in ancient anything.