Lone Wolf
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Pangur Bán;13465336 said:In answer to the opening poster, the fame of Graeco-Roman myths is essentially due to preservation and transmission. Most of the West got literacy with Roman culture and religion, and the stuff they loved was seen as more prestigious among the literacy castes than native alternatives in Germanic, Celtic and Slavic Europe.
The OP is about "Europe vs the Rest", though, rather than about classical and non-classical Europe, though. In fact, the idiosyncratic OP somewhat dismisses the Romans, although he holds Hellenic fare in high regard.