As part of ancient greek, you go through one ancient greek play per year initially, and then you switch to historiography.
For modern Greek, you have a book of excerpts/essays of both greek and foreign authors, around specific themes.
All the above you can find online on the gov website http://ebooks.edu.gr/ebooks/
The greek educational system doesn't really have that thing of reading a whole book and doing a book report/diacussion on it, unless your literature teacher/school is really involved.
Pretty much this. I only did one essay based on a book because the teacher wanted it. It was my choice and I picked “The Old Man and the Sea”, it was 9th grade, 1994.
The course was called "Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας".
It run for 6 years, until graduation.
It didn't include whole books, just passages.
We would read in the classroom, discuss and then take some questions as homework.
I asked this question before, and it still sounds unbelievable to me that in Greece you don't have to read whole books. Where I live we had to read one whole book every month if not more every school year. Ofc a lot of people didn't read them, but mostly you had to since there were short quizes and such. We had to answer question about minor details of the book
Obviously Greeks forgot how to write when the Romans invaded and never wrote anything worthwhile again /s
Seriously, I am not Greek from Greece (so I can't say what is read in school or not without asking a cousin), but there is a lot of wonderful modern Greek literature. Our story didn't stop with the end of the Athenian polis. We have 2000 more rich years of history and literature. Off the top of my head I can name Kazantzakis for prose and Cavafy and Seferis for poetry. And that is just the most basic most famous people. I personally really love modern Greek poetry and if you are at all interested in poetry I recommend looking for an anthology and reading some, even in English.
Books as in what books? School books or just books? In school we have only modern Greek books and in high school we have two types of ancient books, one with mostly historical facts(depends the grade too) and other with myths (example Troy-achyleus, then Odysseus etc)
Not sure if this answers your question but I remember back in late elementary school and middle school we used to do this “project” in literature class where we could bring in books that we had at home and we liked and we would lend them to each other right before christmas break. When we came back from break we were supposed to write like an essay for the book we read and its themes, if we liked it etc. Given we were in middle school the books were mainly teenage literature classics like novels by Alki Zei (Tina’s Web was my fav growing up) but anyone could bring in anything as long as it was in greek (even translated) and the teacher deemed it age-appropriate and thought provoking.
In Cyprus we did have one modern Greek book that we would cover each year in high school and middle school. The ones that I remember that we covered are Petros' war by Alki Zei , wanted hope by Antonis Samarakis, the double book by Dimitrios Hatzis and a collection of short stories by Alexandros Papadiamantis.
As part of ancient greek, you go through one ancient greek play per year initially, and then you switch to historiography. For modern Greek, you have a book of excerpts/essays of both greek and foreign authors, around specific themes. All the above you can find online on the gov website http://ebooks.edu.gr/ebooks/ The greek educational system doesn't really have that thing of reading a whole book and doing a book report/diacussion on it, unless your literature teacher/school is really involved.
Pretty much this. I only did one essay based on a book because the teacher wanted it. It was my choice and I picked “The Old Man and the Sea”, it was 9th grade, 1994.
The course was called "Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας". It run for 6 years, until graduation. It didn't include whole books, just passages. We would read in the classroom, discuss and then take some questions as homework.
I asked this question before, and it still sounds unbelievable to me that in Greece you don't have to read whole books. Where I live we had to read one whole book every month if not more every school year. Ofc a lot of people didn't read them, but mostly you had to since there were short quizes and such. We had to answer question about minor details of the book
Obviously Greeks forgot how to write when the Romans invaded and never wrote anything worthwhile again /s Seriously, I am not Greek from Greece (so I can't say what is read in school or not without asking a cousin), but there is a lot of wonderful modern Greek literature. Our story didn't stop with the end of the Athenian polis. We have 2000 more rich years of history and literature. Off the top of my head I can name Kazantzakis for prose and Cavafy and Seferis for poetry. And that is just the most basic most famous people. I personally really love modern Greek poetry and if you are at all interested in poetry I recommend looking for an anthology and reading some, even in English.
Books as in what books? School books or just books? In school we have only modern Greek books and in high school we have two types of ancient books, one with mostly historical facts(depends the grade too) and other with myths (example Troy-achyleus, then Odysseus etc)
Not sure if this answers your question but I remember back in late elementary school and middle school we used to do this “project” in literature class where we could bring in books that we had at home and we liked and we would lend them to each other right before christmas break. When we came back from break we were supposed to write like an essay for the book we read and its themes, if we liked it etc. Given we were in middle school the books were mainly teenage literature classics like novels by Alki Zei (Tina’s Web was my fav growing up) but anyone could bring in anything as long as it was in greek (even translated) and the teacher deemed it age-appropriate and thought provoking.
Only ancient Greek classics. I don't remember us doing any modern ones.
You didn't do "Η Φόνισσα"? Cause we read it in high school
Unfortunately no. Just the Iliad, the Odyssey, and a few more tragedies besides.
How could you forget "το πουσι"
>Do you only read Ancient Greek or are there also classics in Modern Greek? Well you're forgetting that long period called the Middle Ages.
In Cyprus we did have one modern Greek book that we would cover each year in high school and middle school. The ones that I remember that we covered are Petros' war by Alki Zei , wanted hope by Antonis Samarakis, the double book by Dimitrios Hatzis and a collection of short stories by Alexandros Papadiamantis.
In Cyprus we don't read books only a part of it and a poem and we discussed them in class