The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationThis book tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta! (The sea! The sea!), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the army of 10,000 greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, who also participated in the long march to the coast. This story has played a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Rood tells its story, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romantic novels, newpaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York. |
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Franco Basso , Kristina Boden , Patrick Bradley , Nicholas Horsfall , Robin Lane Fox , John Ma , Greg Rowe , John Taylor , and Stephanie West all drew my attention to poems or passages or films I would probably have otherwise missed .
Franco Basso , Kristina Boden , Patrick Bradley , Nicholas Horsfall , Robin Lane Fox , John Ma , Greg Rowe , John Taylor , and Stephanie West all drew my attention to poems or passages or films I would probably have otherwise missed .
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... extract from The Nine Days Wonder by John Masefield by permission of the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of John Masefield ; extracts from Downriver by Sean O'Brien by permission of Pan Macmillan Ltd ...
... extract from The Nine Days Wonder by John Masefield by permission of the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of John Masefield ; extracts from Downriver by Sean O'Brien by permission of Pan Macmillan Ltd ...
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earlier enquiry into the geography of the Anabasis , was John Macdonald Kinneir's Journey through Asia Minor , Armenia , and Koordistan , in the Years 1813 and 1814 , with remarks on the Marches of Alexander and Retreat of the Ten ...
earlier enquiry into the geography of the Anabasis , was John Macdonald Kinneir's Journey through Asia Minor , Armenia , and Koordistan , in the Years 1813 and 1814 , with remarks on the Marches of Alexander and Retreat of the Ten ...
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adventure Anabasis ancient appeal Armenia army arrival Black Sea British called century claim classical close coast Cyrus described Diary earlier echo English escape exhibition experience famous father feel felt final followed force freedom Greece Greeks Haydon hero heroic History imagination Italy John journey land later Lawrence least letter London looked MacNeice Magazine mind Mount Theches mountains narrative North noted novel ocean offered once opening orig Oxford painting parasangs pass past perhaps Persian picture play poem poet published reached readers retreat romantic route scene seems seen sense sight soldiers sort story suggests tells Ten Thousand Thalassa Thalatta thought Thousand travellers Trebizond Turkey turned wanted writers written wrote Xenophon Xenophon's shout