Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Education, Class, and Classics
1: `Sed Miles, Sed Pro Patria': Classics and Public School Culture
2: `Like the Roman in Brave Days of Old': Middle- and Working-Class Classics
II. Representing War
3: `The Riches of a Spartan Soul': Duty, Honour, Glory, and Sacrifice
4: `The Heroes Stir in their Lone Beds': The Second Trojan War
III. Death and Remembrance
5: `Yet Many a Better One Has Died Before': Deaths Imagined
6: `Their Doom Was Glorious': Commemoration and Remembrance
Conclusion

About the Author

Elizabeth Vandiver is Clement Biddle Penrose Associate Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College.

Reviews

`The book is abrim with research... it is enthrallingly written and on the sly it provides a fascinating socio-historical account of the making of the officer classes'
Tim Kendall, War Poetry Blog