/lit/ - Literature

>>14757467
In a roundabout way (that I'm sure he didn't intend), he has a point, though.

Not even that long ago, most people who went to university left high school with an intermediate knowledge of Latin and a basic knowledge of Greek. Even in my country, sometimes you can encounter heavily annotated editions of Latin works (the Aeneid being the most common) from the beginning of the last century, intended for high schoolers. Some anon also linked to Harvard (I think, it was some university from the USA) entrance exams from the same period a couple months ago. It had plenty of Latin with some Greek (like, Anabasis tier) exercises in it.

Admittedly, that was a time when the number of people in higher education was about the tenth of its current amount, but still. People who want to study the classics shouldn't start their major with 0 knowledge of either Latin or Greek.