A conversation with Professor Joan Alberich (Reus, 1944) is an endless outpouring of knowledge and curiosities. He is a professor of secondary school Greek, a university professor, a member of the Bernat Metge Foundation, and a translator of various works in Greek, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius – he currently has one of Pausanias' travel books in hand. We talk about languages and civilizations and jump through the centuries following the trail of Greek on the occasion of the publication of the second revised edition of the Greek-Catalan Dictionary from Enciclopèdia Catalana, a fundamental pillar of Western culture in our language, which Alberich and Francesc J. Cuartero have directed and co-written, with several authors.

In ancient Greece, a shepherd named Narcissus, who had rejected the love of the nymph Echo, fell in love with his reflection, which he saw every day in a stream. One day, he jumped into the water to find the person who had stolen his heart and amazed him, but his obsession led him to drown. "Oysters, professor," then, the word narcissism "It comes from here, right?" the students ask Meritxell Blay, a secondary school Latin and Greek teacher and author of the book Greek myths (Inuk Books, 2024). Since mythology as such does not exist as a subject, Blay explains it to his students in the Latin and Greek classes he teaches.