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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... readers have searched in vain for some sign of a proper romantic sensitivity . When the blind Joseph Pulitzer listened to his secretary reading out Xenophon's account , he was greatly disappointed by its brevity . Xenophon had left some ...
... readers have searched in vain for some sign of a proper romantic sensitivity . When the blind Joseph Pulitzer listened to his secretary reading out Xenophon's account , he was greatly disappointed by its brevity . Xenophon had left some ...
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... readers strengthens the shared sense of deflation and disappointment . Yet readers might well object that Ruskin's argument is rather weak . He assumes without any evidence that the decorative motif of spirals both represents the sea ...
... readers strengthens the shared sense of deflation and disappointment . Yet readers might well object that Ruskin's argument is rather weak . He assumes without any evidence that the decorative motif of spirals both represents the sea ...
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... readers in by flattering , or patronizing , them : ' What does my reader know about the ancient history of Armenia ? At least he remembers the wonderful march of Xenophon ... ' . And he reverted to that wonderful march when he described ...
... readers in by flattering , or patronizing , them : ' What does my reader know about the ancient history of Armenia ? At least he remembers the wonderful march of Xenophon ... ' . And he reverted to that wonderful march when he described ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
Copyright | |
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