This essay is included in Volume 12 of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (Edited by Ellis Sandoz, Published Essays,1966-1985,1990,pp.265-291). As the title suggests, in this article, Voegelin attempts to examine the classical studies,pointing out that classical scholarship not only occupies a precarious position within the 20th-century western academic institutions, but also—due to the prevailing “climate of opinion”over the past two centuries—has almost no longer a discipline concerned with human nature. Now it is hiding under the historical cover to seek cracks, support and a way out. It is worth noting that Voegelin lists a large number of significant differences between the classical and modern times in the article, providing a criterion and a signpost for the classical studies to return to the intellectual thought in the sense of ancient Greece.