Stanley Casson
Stanley Casson
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| Born | 1889 | ||||||
| Died | 1944 | ||||||
| Residence | 2 Spring Terrace, Richmond, Surrey | ||||||
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Obit by John L. Myres
The Annual of the British School at Athens
Vol. 41 (1940 - 1945), pp. 1-4
Stanley Casson was born in 1889 and educated at Merchant Taylors School in London. He went up to Oxford in 1909 and in 1913 was elected to a Studentship at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. He joined the Army in 1914 and served with the East Lancashire Regiment in France. He was wounded in the leg in 1915, Mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the Greek Order of the Saviour.
Stanley worked in Greece after the war and was instrumental in ensuring Rupert Brooke, who was Britain's best known soldier poet during the First World War, had a fitting memorial on the Island of Skyros.
Publications
External Publications
Iiepakpioi and Δiakpioi.S. Casson - 1925 - The Classical Review 39 (1-2):5-7.
The Dispersal Legend.S. Casson - 1913 - The Classical Review 27 (05):153-156.
Cretan and Trojan Émigrés.S. Casson - 1930 - The Classical Review 44 (02):52-55.
The Persian Expedition to Delphi.S. Casson - 1914 - The Classical Review 28 (05):145-151.
ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ, 'Inventory,' in Herodotus and Thucydides.S. Casson - 1921 - The Classical Review 35 (7-8):144-145.