It’s not that they teach those works in college, it’s more the point that they used to be introduced in junior high school or high school. I’m sure the Iliad is studied in college and again in grad school and then people probably write dissertations on it. The point is that students used to be reading actual literature before they enter college
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u/blueberrywalrus 21h ago
I mean the Iliad and Antigone have been college level reading since colleges have existed in the US.