The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination'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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And this region is , perhaps , ripe for imperial exploitation ( like the Africa of King Solomon's Mines ) , or even for colonization by the adventurers , a new ( old ) world , an ancient El Dorado . The adventurers ' capacity to exploit ...
And this region is , perhaps , ripe for imperial exploitation ( like the Africa of King Solomon's Mines ) , or even for colonization by the adventurers , a new ( old ) world , an ancient El Dorado . The adventurers ' capacity to exploit ...
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Or perhaps ( and the point is that there are many such figures ) as a Peter Fleming , off up the Amazon on a Brazilian adventure in response to a newspaper advertisement , or crossing the wastes of China to bring back news from Tartary ...
Or perhaps ( and the point is that there are many such figures ) as a Peter Fleming , off up the Amazon on a Brazilian adventure in response to a newspaper advertisement , or crossing the wastes of China to bring back news from Tartary ...
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Manfredi is the most recent traveller to have followed Xenophon from sea to shining sea - though he is more famous , perhaps , as the writer of airport bestsellers about Alexander the Great . The three expeditions that Manfredi led ...
Manfredi is the most recent traveller to have followed Xenophon from sea to shining sea - though he is more famous , perhaps , as the writer of airport bestsellers about Alexander the Great . The three expeditions that Manfredi led ...
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