The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationDuckworth Overlook, 2005 - 262 oldal This 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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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8. oldal
... passes ahead , so the Greeks were again and again forced to find ways round , or to take to the mountain heights themselves ... pass through , the Colchians , ' the only people in the way of our being where we have long been eager to be ...
... passes ahead , so the Greeks were again and again forced to find ways round , or to take to the mountain heights themselves ... pass through , the Colchians , ' the only people in the way of our being where we have long been eager to be ...
46. oldal
... pass Responsions ( or ' Little - go ' ) , and to pass them one had to know some Greek and Latin - enough to be able to read , or at least translate from , three books of the Anabasis and four books of Caesar's Gallic War , say . That is ...
... pass Responsions ( or ' Little - go ' ) , and to pass them one had to know some Greek and Latin - enough to be able to read , or at least translate from , three books of the Anabasis and four books of Caesar's Gallic War , say . That is ...
152. oldal
... pass from which the Ten Thousand saw the sea that the urge to interpret their own experiences in the light of these ... Pass in May 1910. He had only one thought in his mind as he approached the pass through a ' sea of cloud ' : can one ...
... pass from which the Ten Thousand saw the sea that the urge to interpret their own experiences in the light of these ... Pass in May 1910. He had only one thought in his mind as he approached the pass through a ' sea of cloud ' : can one ...
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Eastern Adventure | 223 |
Our Friend of Youth | 225 |
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adventure allusion Anabasis ancient Armenia army Arrian Athenian Athens Benjamin Robert Haydon Black Sea British cairn childhood classical coast Cyrus described desert Diary Dunkirk earlier English escape Eucles Euphrates exhibition famous father feel Fergus Finnegans Wake Fleming Galata Glazebrook Greece Haydon Haydon's painting Heine hero heroic History imagination James Joyce journey Joyce Joyce's Kinglake Kinneir Kurdistan land later London looked Louis MacNeice MacNeice's Magazine modern Mount Theches mountains narrative nineteenth century novel ocean orig Oxford parasangs perhaps Persian Persian Wars picture poem poet published readers Rennell retreat romantic Ronald Knox route saw the sea scene on Mount seaside seems seen shouted Thalatta sight soldiers T.E. Lawrence Ten Thousand Greeks Thalassa Thalatta Thomson thought Tozer Trabzon trans Trebizond triumph Turkey Victorian writers wrote Xenophon Xenophon's account Xenophon's Greeks Xenophon's sea Xenophon's shout Yurick