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    ‘Helotage’ by Henry Wallis 1857
  • A Communist Hercules in Interwar Germany 1920
  • A Good & Useful Citizen: John Passmore Edwards 1850
  • Alexander Bain: The Weaver Philosopher 1830
  • The remark was suggestive of many things, and it left me picturing the progress of the class and thinking of the way in which, for so many succeeding generations, the classics have been steeped with the peculiar atmosphere of the public schools. What proportion of Englishmen who have learnt classics at school feel that Theocritus or Plato or Thucydides signify, above all, English playing fields, English class-rooms, and the scent of English limes? Of course in such an atmosphere much evaporates - the restlessness of the Greek intellect and many other things. There is even absurdity in the way in which some story of perverted passion is pleasantly droned through a drowsy summer afternoon. But the whole
    Ancient Greek in Camden Town 1920
  • Andrew Dalzel: Professor of Greek 1779
  • Atlas and Child Labour 1912
  • Benoît Malon and a Socialist Solon 1880
  • Charles Fox’s Modern Hercules 1806
  • Charles Shaw and the Porcelain Jove 1840
  • Clytemnestra Hangs in Dorset 1856
  • Coleman Young, the New Pericles 1986
  • Cupid and Psyche at the Coal Hole 1854
  • Diggory Lawson’s Journey to Gentility… 1845
  • Edgar Britton and the Workers’ Greece 1937
  • Edgell Rickword and all that Grecian business 1920