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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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... past the river Meander , past one of his own hunting parks ( or ' paradises ' ) , and on to the place where Apollo was said to have flayed the satyr Marsyas who had chal- lenged him to a contest with the lyre . It was here , at Celaenae ...
... past the river Meander , past one of his own hunting parks ( or ' paradises ' ) , and on to the place where Apollo was said to have flayed the satyr Marsyas who had chal- lenged him to a contest with the lyre . It was here , at Celaenae ...
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... past , rehearsing his old prophecy to Odysseus , perhaps even trav- elling inland in search of Odysseus himself . The Slavs blithely sweep past him , appropriating from the Greeks a different emblem of arrival : the Ten Thousand's shout ...
... past , rehearsing his old prophecy to Odysseus , perhaps even trav- elling inland in search of Odysseus himself . The Slavs blithely sweep past him , appropriating from the Greeks a different emblem of arrival : the Ten Thousand's shout ...
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... past ' , Paterson in the library is in the position of Odysseus in the Underworld ( a draught of blood was needed for the ghosts to speak ) , and the sea ( ' O Thalassa , Thalassa ! ' ) stands for the past that he is attempting to bring ...
... past ' , Paterson in the library is in the position of Odysseus in the Underworld ( a draught of blood was needed for the ghosts to speak ) , and the sea ( ' O Thalassa , Thalassa ! ' ) stands for the past that he is attempting to bring ...
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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