Oh dear... more seriously unfounded ranting bullshit claims.

"People of centuries past would be dumbfounded by our attitudes today. They were well-versed in classic literature—read it voraciously. Few of us today have read Homer or Juvenal"

Two bits of bullshit here.

Only the very highly educated upper class few could read Latin - into which these books were translated, and transmitted, never in English.

Probably the same percentage today of the total population. Most working class slaves had never even heard the names.