I mean, good lord, we literally have a field of study called "classical studies" that means very specifically "pre-100 AD Greece and Rome" and not, say, ancient Germany or ancient England or ancient Africa or ancient Asia or ancient North or South America or... you know? We've declared ownership over this fractional bit of history, and as a culture we've decided that osmosis is all we need to understand it. @DensetsuNoGomez
@noelle @DensetsuNoGomez And I assure you as a one-time student of Classics, the general level of popular understanding of Greece and Rome is abysmal
@noelle @DensetsuNoGomez I admit my own knowledge has faded with time, and I have some jaundiced ideas (particularly about Rome) not universally shared. I detest Augustus for example
@mona @DensetsuNoGomez I have a degree in Classical Studies and yes, I agree with you.