It’s not culturally acceptable to read Edith Hamilton’s Greek Mythology? Anne Frank, hardly from the distant past, was a huge fan of them. Of course, she was of a very studious nature like so many Jews.
They are very entertaining and truly help to make one an educated and cultured individual.
How nice to hear that Anne Frank was not in the distant past! I’m 73...some days I feel culturally antediluvian. I have a friend who just turned 90. She and her husband are beginning to feel culturally isolated. They aren’t in a nursing home, live as they have for the past 70 years and feel they just don’t fit in any more.
The young people I come in contact with _might_ read Hamilton....I don’t know. They all know who Wolverine is, however. I hear an awful lot of people say they are “too busy to read”. An author I corresponded with, who teaches creative writing, refers to the mass of readers who complain of hating 1st person narrative as ‘unsophisticated’.
I fear the definition of cultured has changed. I grew up on world mythology. They were my bedtime stories. However, to my father’s dismay, the character I liked most was Loki.