Well then you see, ain't so different from rap music excepting that the rappers, the illustrious poets of the modern age, actually have some bearing to the truth in their verses lol.
Lol no joke on Jane Austen and Fifty Shades of Gray. I mean they're written to the same audiences for the same purposes. Just different female fantasies is all.
As for the works of the greeks, I confess I have read them up and down and all around. I've been reading the stories of the inglorious white forefathers since the 1st grade. I actually quite agree with your assessment, to which I'd add even stripping away their daemonic religion that inside their tales contains all the sins still common to the Western races even in today's time. Some things just never change.
Oh I know the librarians and the poets have much different tastes and opinions. My sister was a librarian lol. The librarians and the highly educated elite find their tastes in our works ever looking for perfection in aestheticism. The poets are so much different, living inside their poems, breathing in and out the sordid tales of people most base and common in a tragic ugly world. A cathartic people they are indeed. Oh Dante, oh Sophocles, oh Poe! I'd wager a hefty sum the elite uppercrust that loves their poems so wouldn't even look sideways at those tortured vagrants if they ran into their souls.
Yet I see and agree somewhat how their differences compliment and feed each other. How God makes the opposites attract it seems. Why does the poor rapper verse about how he wants his riches to grow? Why does the elite delight in the plight of the poor man's woes? The wealthy reader craves a base man's prose. The lowly poet takes inspiration in his muse!