Volume 29, Number 1 · February 4, 1982
Strange Fruits
By John Appleton
The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal
edited by M.I. Finley
Oxford University Press, 480 pp., $19.95
If upper-class Englishmen went off to the Great War with Homer in their knapsacks, as we are so often told, they were to learn, like Ronald Knox, that Gallipoli was not the same as Troy. The Duke of Wellington had long since commended the playing fields, not the classrooms, of Eton, and academics returning in 1918 found their shaky classical curriculum doomed to evaporate, an educational monopoly wholly unsuited to the postwar world. (Somewhat the same thing was happening on this side of the Atlantic.)
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