The Decline in Teaching Western Civilization

While true, my main point is that literary canons…including the Western canon has not been a monolithic set of writings set in stone…but has been evolving over the decades and centuries.

Ironically, one recent example of a possible addition to the worldwide and Western classic literary canon is a group of Ancient Egyptian works:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/23/ancient-egypt-written-works-published-book-english-first-time