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SUMMARY:Before Gallipoli there was Homer – the Classics and the Dardanel
 les Campaign of 1915 - Professor Sam Lieu   
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:The famous Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 was fought almost within
  sight of the ruins of Schliemann’s Troy. Many classically trained and h
 ighly idealistic Edwardian youths like Rupert Brooke (Rugby and King’s\,
  Cambridge) and Patrick Shaw-Stewart (Eton\, Balliol and All Souls\, Oxfor
 d) found themselves in the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division\, an
 d heading for the Dardanelles (the ancient Hellespont) to take part in a c
 ampaign which might help to restore Hellenism to Ottoman Constantinople. D
 rawing directly from the poems and letters of these two well known literar
 y figures as well as from those of fellow scholar-soldiers who took part i
 n the campaign such as A.W. St Clair Tisdall VC (Bedford School and Trinit
 y\, Cambridge)\, Charles Lister (Eton and Balliol)\, Charles Bean (Clifton
  and Hertford)\, G.W. Claye (the Perse School\, Cambridge)\, the lecture a
 ims to bring to life the initial excitement over the chance to prove one
 ’s manhood on the Plain of Troy followed by the disappointments and frus
 trations of a doomed military campaign. The lecture will also examine the 
 patriotic ideals and class-superiority of a closely-knit cultural and soci
 al elite as well as the unfailing common belief in the supremacy of a clas
 sical education made tragically relevant by a modern military campaign wag
 ed so close to its original roots.\n\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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