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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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Lawrence's heightened mood stayed with him as he reached the coast and had a swim : ' I felt that at last I had reached the way to the South , and all the glorious East . ... I fancy I know now better than Keats what Cortes felt like ...
Lawrence's heightened mood stayed with him as he reached the coast and had a swim : ' I felt that at last I had reached the way to the South , and all the glorious East . ... I fancy I know now better than Keats what Cortes felt like ...
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Xenophon's account of the Ten Thousand seeing the sea was closely echoed by a British historian recounting how the Prussian army under Blucher felt at the first sight of the Rhine as it drove Napoleon's French army back across the river ...
Xenophon's account of the Ten Thousand seeing the sea was closely echoed by a British historian recounting how the Prussian army under Blucher felt at the first sight of the Rhine as it drove Napoleon's French army back across the river ...
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Haydon had felt equally enthusiastic when he first read Reynolds ' lectures on painting ( " The thing was done . ... The spark which had for years lain struggling to blaze , now burst out for ever ' ) , when he first dissected an animal ...
Haydon had felt equally enthusiastic when he first read Reynolds ' lectures on painting ( " The thing was done . ... The spark which had for years lain struggling to blaze , now burst out for ever ' ) , when he first dissected an animal ...
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