>>16540262Sorry was there a single country on the map that chose Greek as most attractive?
It's Latin countries that dominated.
Tho there's been some regional controversy here, so perhaps worth noting since ancient names South Italy+Sicily have had heavy Hellenic element; the ancient Romans called it Magna Græcia (Great Greece) after all.
Except they did not spent 500 years in Ottoman Turk empire and go thru massive population transfers with Anatolians and Pontics from Asia Minor moving in the 20th century, so remains closer to Classical Ancient Greeks, the men who built Græco-Roman civ
e.g. Archimedes was from Syracusæ–centuries earlier settled by Doric Greeks, larger than Athens and destroyed Athenians when they attacked on their retarded 'Sicilian Expedition', so Syracusans helped their ethnic cousins in Sparta finally defeat Athens in Peloponnesian War
