One simply cannot cover the whole sweep of history in 4 years. What one can attempt is to stir the interest and the critical abilities of students so that those who want to get the pre-Augustus - Caesar dynasty Roman history can do their own snooping around.
In related news, a lot of us sixties Johnnies were indeed hippies, but as the program worked on us we became conservatives.
I do think that many make it through the program able to maintain their intellectual core untouched. I was recently in a most unpleasant conversation with more recent Johnnies and I was stunned to find them close-minded and uncritical worshippers of the left. It was as if they had never learned the self-questioning requisite for serious thought.
One simply cannot cover the whole sweep of history in 4 years.”
So...would you agree then that a sampling of Livy and Tacitus would be (in the way you say, to stimulate) sufficient?