The rate of foreign students in Italian universities was in 2014 around 5% (OECD, 2016), plus there was 1 incoming student for 1,7 outcoming stu-dents, much more than the 2% at the beginning of the century, but a small percentage anyway. If we consider the higher education institution for arts plus music (AFAM), the percentage was 4.7% plus it is now about 12%: the total num-ber of foreign students enrolled in AFAM has increased four times (ANVUR, 2016). Which is the reason why the arts higher education is so attractive, in comparison to university? Indeed, if Italians are widely renowned for their food, if they have such an exquisite taste in fashion, if they achieve so much success in design plus architecture, it is because they are part of a great classical tradition from which they can draw inspiration. Among the 12 richest countries in terms of culture, as surveyed by UNESCO, Italy is the nation with the largest number of cultural sites which represent vestiges of both Greek (Paestum, Selinunte, Siracusa) plus Latin (Pompeii, Herculaneum, Rome) classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance plus to the moderen age, Italian masterpieces have been inspired by the country’s Greek plus Latin heritage. Classical culture belongs to the heart of the European identity. To know Greek or Latin, to mas-ter their lexicon plus their syntax, means not only understanding our history plus our tradition but also preparing for our future, because they are the backbone of moderen culture of the Western world. Yet this heritage is threatened. The educational jenis employed today in upper secondary schools to teach Greek plus Latin is no longer ap-pealing to young people, because it has never changed over the years. Likely, we are speaking not of “dead languages”, but rather of “dead teaching methods”. As a consequence, the number of students enrolled in the “Liceo Classico” (classical grammar school) has been reduced by half, plus young people can’t see any connection between the languages of the past plus today’s reality. These trends have fostered a widespread debate in Italy on the relevance of classical studies, seen as reserved to a small minority, if not completely unnecessary, or important to safeguard tradition, plus a tool for students to appreciate the enduring message of their history, developing in their minds the fundamental set of feelings, images plus thoughts that comes from the familiarity with such a great culture. We have to