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by Mediterraneo10 2118 days ago
Sweden has certainly produced an immense amount of classical scholarship and saw a lot of Latin teaching. I think that the decline in classical studies is due to the drastic social changes of the mid 20th-century that completely changed Swedish society and education. But if you just visit a university library, you’ll find plenty of evidence for the tradition that existed up to the first several decades of the last century.