STANLEY CASSON (1889–1944)
Hellenic Studies (1920)
92 pages long.
"Mr Casson . . . has the poet's eye and the scholar's knowledge, combined with a sound sense of language, and the result of using all three is a series of excellent little essays. . . . There is much learning here, but lightly and deftly used, and much good criticism." (Glasgow Herald)
"With a note of apology for Juvenilia, so rare nowadays as to be utterly amazing, Mr Casson introduces a charming little collection of daintily written essays. They are simple and quiet. . . . Those who have never been to Greece or its islands will, after reading Hellenic Studies, want to go there all the more for the fact that there is not the smallest suggestion of guide-book about it." (Land And Water)
"Mr Casson's studies . . . throw new light on the resemblances in essential points of personality and temperament between modern Englishmen and the ancient Hellenes." (Morning Post)
"Classical students will be delighted with this book. . . . Mr Casson has caught the breath of the wonderful country he describes . . . he has got below surface appearances and touched the inner meaning of all these things. . . . Mr Casson has deep scholarship as well, but, as a rule, he wears it lightly.... We know of few books that can give to the untravelled reader so true a picture of Greece, whilst those who are familiar with the sights that Mr Casson describes will find in his essays much of that delicate fugitive charm which they themselves experienced, and found it so hard to express in words." (The Tablet)
"The half-dozen essays here collected bring us into touch with one who knows modern Greece well, but who has travelled about it always with his mind full of the ancient memories. . . . Mr Casson's quiet descriptive style and fine literary taste will commend his book to many 'Grecians'." (Times Literary Supplement)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5026150&view=2up&seq=8
Rupert Brooke And Skyros (1921)
19 pages long.
https://archive.org/details/rupertbrookeskyr00cassuoft/page/n5/mode/2up
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050574717&view=2up&seq=12
Ancient Greece (1922)
77 pages long.
The World's Manuals.
"It may be asked what we have in common with Ancient Greece. It will be sufficient answer if we say that we have common ideals. The Greek strove, as we strive, to think clearly, to act justly, and to live freely. That he did not succeed completely in doing any one of these things for long is the clear verdict of history, for Greek culture faded in the twilight of philosophic decadence, moral failure, and political subjection. But it is from the failures as well as from the successes of Greece that we can strive to establish the outlines of our own life. Complete success is a hard taskmaster just because it is so hard to live up to. Partial success and the causes of failure provide better instructors to an imperfect world. From its imperfections we can get a hint of what the greatness of Greece might have been ; from its perfections we can learn our own shortcomings.
What makes Greece so unbounded a store of wealth for us to draw from is that the Greeks at the time of the height of their greatness never lost touch with humanity. Whatever they did or thought was judged by the one standard of mankind. 'Man is the measure of all things', said their own proverb. And this greatness was the greatness of a national spirit, not of a party, a sect, or a dynasty." (Page 7)
"Mr. Casson’s little book is an "oeuvre de vulgarisation", a sketch of the salient points of Greek culture that will be interesting and useful to older schoolboys and to undergraduates as well as to those of riper year's who are more or less uninstructed in classical lore and desire to know more of the ancient civilization that is held up to them as still worthy of study and imitation even by the self-sufficient and self-satisfied modern world." (H. H., The Journal Of Hellenic Studies, Volume 42, 1922)
https://archive.org/details/ancientgreece00cassrich/page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/ancientgreecestu00cassuoft/page/2/mode/2up
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000572938
Macedonia, Thrace And Illyria: Their Relations To Greece From The Earliest Times Down To The Time Of Philip, Son Of Amyntas (1926)
"The purpose of this book is to set forth the chief evidence which is at present available for the reconstruction of the earlier history of the North Aegean coast-line and its hinterland. For a variety of reasons the north coast of the Aegean Sea and the main Balkan ranges behind it, together with the structurally related mountains and valleys of Illyria, have, until recent years, been inaccessible to any except hasty travel and limited or superficial exploration. The archaeological, epigraphical and geographical evidence has thus been lacking from the historical research of these regions in a way which has not been so evident in the other regions of the Mediterranean where Hellenic culture was evident or dominant. The history of Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria has been but little studied, except in so far as it formed a part of the history of adjoining regions or as the prelude to or interlude in other phases or periods.
I have attempted, therefore, to bring together, however briefly, the pertinent evidence for the history of these regions during the periods which are least studied. I have used my discretion to interpret the evidence to a limited extent, where interpretation seemed necessary, without in any way attempting to do more than restate the main problems." (Preface)
https://books.google.gr/books?id=UjxoAAAAMAAJ
Greece Against The Axis (1943)
https://books.google.gr/books?id=-CcDAAAAMAAJ
Stanley Casson Bibliography
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