Did you just skim through my OP?

I thought I made it clear enough I don’t consider it as literal of “a thing” as my post is leading you some to believe, but if it wasn’t clear let me phrase it another way:

The vague list of smart big brain books academics circle around as the books to read if you are indeed a smart big brained boy that’s remained unchallenged in it’s insistence on being entirely western, exept when it’s not. But western culture has appropriated certain elements of hellantistic and European culture as it’s lineage regardless of the merits of that. That group of books.

Also generally referred to as “The classics” or “the American Classics” (even when they’re not American) or “The literary canon” or, for simplicity “The canon of American classic literature.”