Young Enoch won a free place to Trinity College, Cambridge, took prize after prize in classical studies and, of course, gained a first.

ECONOMIST: Enoch Powell

Not classical foreign ministry stuff, of course, but full of tricky international implications, not least for the euro.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Languages can be either ancient or modern, drawn from a list of 172 course options, ranging from classical Greek to Japanese and Urdu.

BBC: Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

"First, the UK and Europe have an incredibly vibrant classical music scene in terms of concert attendance, record labels and journalism - though of course the US is the biggest single country in terms of actual classical music sales, " he said.

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Contrary to the tenets of classical economics, Simon maintained that individuals do not seek to maximise their benefit from a particular course of action (since they cannot assimilate and digest all the information that would be needed to do such a thing).

ECONOMIST: Guru