By the end of the course, Polis MA students are invited to deliver a brief speech in either Biblical Hebrew or Ancient Greek. Students choose subjects from a list suggested by teachers only two hours before the presentation itself. During this period, the student can take some brief notes for self-guidance but no dictionary, grammar, or any sort of text is provided or allowed. The speech you see here was delivered in 2016 by MA student Reuel Martinez, who tried to answer the question "what would