The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationThis book tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta! (The sea! The sea!), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the army of 10,000 greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, who also participated in the long march to the coast. This story has played a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Rood tells its story, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romantic novels, newpaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York. |
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There were ten thousand of them in that sweltering day There were ten thousand of them in that remote land And in front of their eyes they can see in the frame of the hills A long stripe on the horizon .
There were ten thousand of them in that sweltering day There were ten thousand of them in that remote land And in front of their eyes they can see in the frame of the hills A long stripe on the horizon .
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Land ! ' shouted from Columbus ' ship . That cry has struck several readers of Xenophon as the nautical equivalent of ' Thalatta ! ... Land ! ' ? No such shout is mentioned in his ' diario ' ( not his actual log , but a later transcript ...
Land ! ' shouted from Columbus ' ship . That cry has struck several readers of Xenophon as the nautical equivalent of ' Thalatta ! ... Land ! ' ? No such shout is mentioned in his ' diario ' ( not his actual log , but a later transcript ...
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( ʻlight ! land ! ' ) . The true sailor's version of ' Thalatta ! Thalatta ! ' is supplied by the later testimony of one of the sailors on board , who reported that one of his colleagues ' saw a white head of sand and raised his eyes ...
( ʻlight ! land ! ' ) . The true sailor's version of ' Thalatta ! Thalatta ! ' is supplied by the later testimony of one of the sailors on board , who reported that one of his colleagues ' saw a white head of sand and raised his eyes ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
Copyright | |
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| Cím | The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination, Tim Rood |
| Szerző | Tim Rood |
| Kiadó | Duckworth Overlook, 2005 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Michigani Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 28. |
| ISBN | 0715633082, 9780715633083 |
| Terjedelem | 262 oldal |
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