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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... mind was formed . Then they could register their feelings as they called Thalatta ! Thalatta ! ' . Watkins had a point . Just think of Hobart trying to recall his first sight of the sea : he describes sensations that ' could scarcely be ...
... mind was formed . Then they could register their feelings as they called Thalatta ! Thalatta ! ' . Watkins had a point . Just think of Hobart trying to recall his first sight of the sea : he describes sensations that ' could scarcely be ...
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... mind when he attributed to his fictional persona Henry Ryecroft the perception that the Anabasis is ' fresh with the ... minds ! The thoughts of home , wives , children , friends ... it was a prospect of DELIVERANCE ; like an opening ...
... mind when he attributed to his fictional persona Henry Ryecroft the perception that the Anabasis is ' fresh with the ... minds ! The thoughts of home , wives , children , friends ... it was a prospect of DELIVERANCE ; like an opening ...
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... mind roams as he reads : Awake , he dozes in a fever heat , cheeks burning to the past , amazed loaning blood risking life . And as his mind fades , joining the others , he seeks to bring it back - but it eludes him , flutters again and ...
... mind roams as he reads : Awake , he dozes in a fever heat , cheeks burning to the past , amazed loaning blood risking life . And as his mind fades , joining the others , he seeks to bring it back - but it eludes him , flutters again and ...
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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