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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... sense Of thee , thou boundless Ocean ! Once again Thy sound is in my ears , that mighty strain Of multitudinous waves in one immense And boundless utterance of omnipotence . The sense of freedom seems to fire my brain , And fill my ...
... sense Of thee , thou boundless Ocean ! Once again Thy sound is in my ears , that mighty strain Of multitudinous waves in one immense And boundless utterance of omnipotence . The sense of freedom seems to fire my brain , And fill my ...
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... sense of distance from the sea , from a sense of alienation and loss , from an emptiness that needed to be filled . Xenophon's shout of the sea could become a religious cry of triumph as readily as it could stand for erotic fulfilment ...
... sense of distance from the sea , from a sense of alienation and loss , from an emptiness that needed to be filled . Xenophon's shout of the sea could become a religious cry of triumph as readily as it could stand for erotic fulfilment ...
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... sense of both our past and future and so redeem our present . ' There is always something more , always a residue of hope : as MacNeice wrote of the collection in which ' Round the Corner ' appeared , The Burning Perch , ' even in the ...
... sense of both our past and future and so redeem our present . ' There is always something more , always a residue of hope : as MacNeice wrote of the collection in which ' Round the Corner ' appeared , The Burning Perch , ' even in the ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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