I'm very sad that professor Zenios is leaving the classics department at UCLA. This class was fantastic. Professor Zenios assigns challenging texts, but he always has such rich commentary on them, that you'll get something out of the class even if you don't read a single one. My favorite section of the class was the modern literature, but the ancient texts were interesting, and even the political theory was worthwhile. The texts themselves are challenging, but I would much rather read them and actually discuss the texts in detail than read something simpler and never analyze it in class, which has been my experience in some other classics classes. Overall, Professor Zenios is an extremely passionate person, and one of the most intelligent and thoughtful professors I know. I highly recommend him as a professor in case he ever comes back as a lecturer.