Again, what you are posting is the old stereotype that is being complained about here. Any survey of education in the Eastern Roman Empire will talk about how p

Again, what you are posting is the old stereotype that is being complained about here. Any survey of education in the Eastern Roman Empire will talk about how pagan literature at variance with Christian teaching, was not only copied, it remained the very foundation of the literary canon used for teaching. Christian educators simply found it too useful to censor out of existence. The loss of so much literature in the Western Roman Empire has to be understood in the context of the overall collapse in literacy there, which was due to late-antiquity political factors and not religious ones, and then resource starvation in scriptoria.