Uh... maybe! I assume it has as many totally wacko stories, given that it's... about people who lived a long time ago and so were probably traumatized and crazy and did weird stuff.
I feel like I know almost nothing, certainly in terms of how things fit together, about Greek and Roman... anything. Like, I know fairly basic historic facts about Julius Caesar and Augustus and Cleopatra and etc., mostly from Shakespeare and reading around Shakespeare. And reading Judith Tarr's historical novels :PP And scattered things about random emperors here and there. But that's about it.
(I guess that's still more than I knew about Frederick the Great, though! So there's that.)
Re: The Lecture, summarized
I feel like I know almost nothing, certainly in terms of how things fit together, about Greek and Roman... anything. Like, I know fairly basic historic facts about Julius Caesar and Augustus and Cleopatra and etc., mostly from Shakespeare and reading around Shakespeare. And reading Judith Tarr's historical novels :PP And scattered things about random emperors here and there. But that's about it.
(I guess that's still more than I knew about Frederick the Great, though! So there's that.)