The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationDuckworth Overlook, 2006 - 262 oldal 'Thalatta! Thalatta!' ('The Sea! The Sea!') was the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army of Greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, himself a participant in their long march to the coast. Their shout has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in Western cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Here Tim Rood tells its story for the first time, drawing on a wide range of works - literary masterpieces and romantic fiction, tales of travel and adventure, memoirs of childhood and war, a radio play by Louis MacNeice and a cult Hollywood film. Book jacket. |
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... Cyrus was able to raise troops from all over the Greek world , but above all from the poor regions of Arcadia and Achaea , the central and north - western regions of the Peloponnese . This Greek force was only a small part of Cyrus ...
... Cyrus was able to raise troops from all over the Greek world , but above all from the poor regions of Arcadia and Achaea , the central and north - western regions of the Peloponnese . This Greek force was only a small part of Cyrus ...
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... Cyrus took his personal brigade of cavalry , six hundred strong , and charged against the Persian centre , where his brother was posted . Rode the six hundred through the troops defending the king , but Cyrus became isolated , with only ...
... Cyrus took his personal brigade of cavalry , six hundred strong , and charged against the Persian centre , where his brother was posted . Rode the six hundred through the troops defending the king , but Cyrus became isolated , with only ...
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... Cyrus , that romantic rebel ' - as if Cyrus were a Bonny Prince Charlie in Achaemenid clothing . Indeed , Sir Alexander Grant could write that ' at first sight there is a halo of romance over the whole episode , not unlike that which ...
... Cyrus , that romantic rebel ' - as if Cyrus were a Bonny Prince Charlie in Achaemenid clothing . Indeed , Sir Alexander Grant could write that ' at first sight there is a halo of romance over the whole episode , not unlike that which ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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