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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... force numbered almost thirteen thousand : they are known as ' the Ten Thousand ' because that is a nice round figure ( and also , perhaps , because that is roughly how many of them arrived back at the sea ) . They were at first not a ...
... force numbered almost thirteen thousand : they are known as ' the Ten Thousand ' because that is a nice round figure ( and also , perhaps , because that is roughly how many of them arrived back at the sea ) . They were at first not a ...
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... force was only a small part of Cyrus ' army : he also had one hundred thousand non - Greek troops , if Xenophon's figure can be trusted . Cyrus ' claim was that he was going to use his army against the Pisidians , an obstinate mountain ...
... force was only a small part of Cyrus ' army : he also had one hundred thousand non - Greek troops , if Xenophon's figure can be trusted . Cyrus ' claim was that he was going to use his army against the Pisidians , an obstinate mountain ...
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... force , when not engaged in actual campaign - of the Scourge which such a force was to all the surrounding countryside , and how they were just as likely to plunder a Greek as a barbarian settlement . ' This strong countervoice bears ...
... force , when not engaged in actual campaign - of the Scourge which such a force was to all the surrounding countryside , and how they were just as likely to plunder a Greek as a barbarian settlement . ' This strong countervoice bears ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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