/lit/ - Literature

>my country had Latin and ancient Greek in schools
>had many classical high-schools
>had many classics professors
>they were translating ancient authors
>they had thriving community
>then WWII happened and my country was occupied by the Russians who killed everyone, closed all the classics schools and university departments
I recently bought an ancient Greek dictionary, published in 1991 (right after the fall of communism) and in the preface they said they're publishing it in the original version of 1938 because they don't have the capacity to even edit it.