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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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When an English aristocrat looked back in 1905 to a journey across North America that he had made more than fifty years earlier , Xenophon provided the right register as he recalled the great moment when , after an increasingly ...
When an English aristocrat looked back in 1905 to a journey across North America that he had made more than fifty years earlier , Xenophon provided the right register as he recalled the great moment when , after an increasingly ...
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Why had Hogg not read Xenophon earlier , like Mill or Pusey , when he was at Durham Grammar School ? 6 These three examples suggest that , early in the nineteenth century , the Anabasis had not yet become the school text .
Why had Hogg not read Xenophon earlier , like Mill or Pusey , when he was at Durham Grammar School ? 6 These three examples suggest that , early in the nineteenth century , the Anabasis had not yet become the school text .
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But this was not that large by Haydon's earlier standards . It was only a little over a third the size of earlier works like Christ's Entry into Jerusalem ( 228 inches by 192 ) , to which he had devoted six years , or The Raising of ...
But this was not that large by Haydon's earlier standards . It was only a little over a third the size of earlier works like Christ's Entry into Jerusalem ( 228 inches by 192 ) , to which he had devoted six years , or The Raising of ...
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