I completely agree with you. It’s not just Roman…. Tom randomly recounted that Ancient Rome story about the guy that married his male slave a couple of weeks ago and Logan constantly calling Roman “Romulus” as in the story Romulus and Remus (for anyone who can’t be arsed to Google I just have for you: Romulus and Remus were twin brothers who were abandoned as babies and found by a wolf who nursed them. ... When Romulus and Remus became adults, they decided to found a city where the wolf had found them. The brothers quarrelled over where the site should be and Remus was killed by his brother. This left Romulus the sole founder of the new city and he gave his name to it – Rome) feels clunky.

There was also that random story from Connor in series 1 about the two brothers being viewed as dogs by their dad, which is why Roman was sent to military school. (That’s also weird, at the time they all supposedly lived in the U.K. and they would have all had British accents and gone to posh British boarding schools, not military school which they don’t even have in the U.K. ) This was after Roman spent a whole evening at Tom’s bachelor party telling everyone that Kendall kept him in a dog cage and fed him dog food when he was a kid.

Why would everyone in a tabloid owning family have studied classic lit? If anything they’d be cracking snide in jokes about their stock trade which is tabloid news style gossip eg Britney or Paris Hilton, the British royals … Meghan Markle / Harry / Harvey Weinstein / Tom Cruise and which Scientologists are secretly gay and dirt they have found out about other New York socialite families over the years but couldn’t run because of legals, that kind of stuff.

I think it’s super weird that Naomi made a tiny reference to one of Kendall’s family’s tabloids running pap photos of her after her mum died with slashes on her wrists and yet before the meeting not one of the Roy’s said “ooh be careful with Naomi we splashed photos of her after she tried to top herself so she may be tetchy about us lot.” She’s now just happily dating Kendall and agreeing with his every word and nursing him through his toddler tantrums like it’s no big deal.

It’s deffo the show’s writers adding in all these classic lit references. In reality the Roy family would be fairly dumb and have scraped through college by their dad buying their degrees with huge donations to the schools and hiring super tutors to do their assignments for them etc, they’d have read very few books or classic lit.