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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... passes ahead , so the Greeks were again and again forced to find ways round , or to take to the mountain heights themselves ... pass through , the Colchians , ' the only people in the way of our being where we have long been eager to be ...
... passes ahead , so the Greeks were again and again forced to find ways round , or to take to the mountain heights themselves ... pass through , the Colchians , ' the only people in the way of our being where we have long been eager to be ...
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... pass Responsions ( or ' Little - go ' ) , and to pass them one had to know some Greek and Latin - enough to be able to read , or at least translate from , three books of the Anabasis and four books of Caesar's Gallic War , say . That is ...
... pass Responsions ( or ' Little - go ' ) , and to pass them one had to know some Greek and Latin - enough to be able to read , or at least translate from , three books of the Anabasis and four books of Caesar's Gallic War , say . That is ...
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... pass from which the Ten Thousand saw the sea that the urge to interpret their own experiences in the light of these ... Pass in May 1910. He had only one thought in his mind as he approached the pass through a ' sea of cloud ' : can one ...
... pass from which the Ten Thousand saw the sea that the urge to interpret their own experiences in the light of these ... Pass in May 1910. He had only one thought in his mind as he approached the pass through a ' sea of cloud ' : can one ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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