The odd thing about this ‘Greek-history-lesson’ is that a hundred years ago...it would have been discussed in a university class as standard lecture, along with Roman-history. Educated gentlemen would have sat around and discussed the topic with a cigar in one hand and a whiskey in the other.
Yes, and the average person who had completed even 8 years of schooling in the US would have had a familiarity with the culture and the history of ancient Rome and ancient Greece.
So sad to see what we have lost.