Ulysses Victorianus and the Other Knowledge of Empire‪.‬

I. Nineteenth-century British Hellenism anchored itself to the rock of the Athenian fifth century: the Golden Age stretched from the great defeat of the armies of the East at Marathon, to the death of Socrates in 399 B.C. It was in that era's military excellence and subsequent achievements in the political and cultural spheres that educated Victorians apprehended their Viconian likeness. In 1874, classicist J.P. Mahaffy characterized Greek literature as