
By Dimitri Gonis
Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped that ‘God learnt Greek when he wanted to become an author’.
On the April 14, 2025 Unesco agreed with him, formally recognising Greek as “the longest continuously spoken language in Europe… Occupying a key position in intellectual thought, in the linguistic expression and formulation of fundamental concepts and key words of European and wider, almost universal intellectual thought which are conveyed, understood or