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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... Trebizond , and then went by land through Armenia and Kurdistan , attracted by the geographical and political interest of the route . After arriving at Mosul , he treats his readers to ' a few words ' ( in fact six pages ) on the route ...
... Trebizond , and then went by land through Armenia and Kurdistan , attracted by the geographical and political interest of the route . After arriving at Mosul , he treats his readers to ' a few words ' ( in fact six pages ) on the route ...
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... Trebizond by a long range of mountains . Some travellers would report that as you approach Trebizond from some directions you only catch your first sight of the sea when you are quite close to the city . But here and there amidst the ...
... Trebizond by a long range of mountains . Some travellers would report that as you approach Trebizond from some directions you only catch your first sight of the sea when you are quite close to the city . But here and there amidst the ...
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... Trebizond marked the close of his adventures in the interior . From there he could catch the steamer to Constantinople , and , as Thackeray wrote , ' wher- ever the steamboat touches the shore adventure retreats into the interior , and ...
... Trebizond marked the close of his adventures in the interior . From there he could catch the steamer to Constantinople , and , as Thackeray wrote , ' wher- ever the steamboat touches the shore adventure retreats into the interior , and ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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