Sadly, I cannot read Ancient Greek, but I know a nun who does and she has tutored me a bit. Whenever I want to judge a translation of the Iliad, I go to Book XXI and read of the death of Lycaon. It is simply the most terrifying, but poetically lyrical passage in all of literature, IMHO. Even a poor translation is certain to give you a chill; a good one you will remember for the rest of your life: “…And the silver-sided fish will dart from beneath the shadow of a dark ripple to nip at the white fat of Lycaon”.
The Open Society Initiatives that "Thought Leaders" began in the 1930s have de-empahsized Western Civilization courses, including Greek and Latin, and replaced them with Leftist Poly-Sci, Sociology, and small world self discovery curriculum aimed at finding personal "Meaning". In 1945 Harvard had a Curriculum recommendations were about 50/50 Western Civ and Technical. The most recent recommendations do not contain any Western Civ.