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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... looked up . So he looked up . Smoke lay in wind- less drifts too close upon the dark mass of the city for the river's course to be traced through it , and he saw no coloured sails . The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have ...
... looked up . So he looked up . Smoke lay in wind- less drifts too close upon the dark mass of the city for the river's course to be traced through it , and he saw no coloured sails . The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have ...
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... looked down upon the Lombard plain , and saw Verona and its towers and the white river bed below them : so did Xenophon and Cortez , and every adventurer and pilgrim , before them or after . Freya Stark , The Valleys of the Assassins ...
... looked down upon the Lombard plain , and saw Verona and its towers and the white river bed below them : so did Xenophon and Cortez , and every adventurer and pilgrim , before them or after . Freya Stark , The Valleys of the Assassins ...
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... looked upon Marathon ... and Marathon looked on the sea ' ) . The great Greek resistance against Persian invaders was a far more appropriate setting for a cry of national triumph than the retreat of a bunch of mercenaries . So too with ...
... looked upon Marathon ... and Marathon looked on the sea ' ) . The great Greek resistance against Persian invaders was a far more appropriate setting for a cry of national triumph than the retreat of a bunch of mercenaries . So too with ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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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's