Kipling and ‘Agamemnon’
In October 1918, the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, allies of Germany, was received by the British aboard HMS Agamemnon, named after the legendary Greek hero. Just two weeks earlier, Rudyard Kipling had published an English translation of the Greek National Anthem, written in their revolution against Ottoman rule. For the British, Greek independence was a symbol of everyone’s freedom.
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