WTF is this? I've never seen such a large swath of primary source material dismissed so glibly. We should take the origins of western Philosophy, Logic, and Music Theory less than seriously because of some vague agenda? Me thinks the tinfoil is strong with this one.

''' The Roman empire had the technology of written language, and a lot of their records, written in Latin, survive today. Unfortunately those records are shrouded in many dense layers of propaganda: they’ve been selectively preserved and presented by academics over the millennia, to support whatever political, religious, or philosophical cause; and of course, many of them were spun to the political needs of the Romans who wrote them in the first place. As a consequence, most ancient history should should be taken with several grains of salt. '''