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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (36926)5/7/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (5) of 108807
 
I would say that expecting another person to have read Jane Austen, Homer, Virgil, Plato, St. Augustine, and Aristotle is not snobbish, nor elitist. How could an educated person not have read Persuasion, nor Pride and Prejudice? I expect an educated person to have read Aesop's Fables. I expect an educated person to have read some Dickens. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. Madame Bovary. I would say you were an elitist snob if you expected the other person to have read Martial, Tacitus, or Boethius.

I am not sure whether Euripedes, Ovid, Plutarch and Cicero would be considered essential.
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