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.
I have been told that one cannot truly appreciate the beauty of the Iliad in any form of translation. The same is apparently true of Russian literature. With Shakespeare, at least, we enjoy the other side of the equation. Still, I hope I live long enough for some poet to do with the Iliad what Seamus Heaney did for Beowulf.