These works and authors are important because later authors have copied or imitated them right up until today and because they raise fundamental questions about human existence with which we must all struggle. One year the students viewed Public Television's In Search of the Trojan War, an absorbing quest for the historical reality behind the myth of the Trojan War. Another time, students planned a Euripides Festival, with several films by the modern Greek director Michael Cacoyiannis of plays by Euripides, and several speakers. A third example was the time students saw the movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which not only is a very funny movie, but also is taken entirely from ancient Latin comedies.
Students read original works in translation rather than as excerpts.
Art is incorporated into appropriate lectures.