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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Before he is saved by the sight of the sea , he is lost in a romantic desert - a boundless desert that he compares several times with the sea , a place of danger where it is all too easy to disappear without trace , but a place that can ...
Before he is saved by the sight of the sea , he is lost in a romantic desert - a boundless desert that he compares several times with the sea , a place of danger where it is all too easy to disappear without trace , but a place that can ...
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seems to intimate a desire for the sea that has been aroused but that can never be satisfied , a romantic restlessness , a Wanderlust . A yearning as futile as Chekhov's three sisters longing for ' Moscow ! Moscow !
seems to intimate a desire for the sea that has been aroused but that can never be satisfied , a romantic restlessness , a Wanderlust . A yearning as futile as Chekhov's three sisters longing for ' Moscow ! Moscow !
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28 The most sustained use of Xenophon's shout as a romantic symbol in modern poetry is to be found in an intense and intriguing work Thalassa Thalassa by the Australian poet Javant Biarujia ( a name adopted from the private language he ...
28 The most sustained use of Xenophon's shout as a romantic symbol in modern poetry is to be found in an intense and intriguing work Thalassa Thalassa by the Australian poet Javant Biarujia ( a name adopted from the private language he ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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