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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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And how was the journey to be described ? ... the reality ... must be trans- formed . Courage , pace , adventure - that was the nature of the journey , more true than mere reality ... Below him the cold dull waves broke on the stones ...
And how was the journey to be described ? ... the reality ... must be trans- formed . Courage , pace , adventure - that was the nature of the journey , more true than mere reality ... Below him the cold dull waves broke on the stones ...
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But her Xenophontic title is in line with the key image through which she interprets her life : the sense of discov- ering religion as a journey home . Hodgson starts by describing her Edwardian childhood in Yorkshire .
But her Xenophontic title is in line with the key image through which she interprets her life : the sense of discov- ering religion as a journey home . Hodgson starts by describing her Edwardian childhood in Yorkshire .
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293–4 ; I. Bird , Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan ( London , 1988-9 ; orig . pub . ... Following Xenophon : J.M. Kinneir , Journey through Asia Minor , Armenia , and Koordistan , in the Years 1813 and 1814 , with remarks on the Marches ...
293–4 ; I. Bird , Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan ( London , 1988-9 ; orig . pub . ... Following Xenophon : J.M. Kinneir , Journey through Asia Minor , Armenia , and Koordistan , in the Years 1813 and 1814 , with remarks on the Marches ...
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Eastern Adventure | 223 |
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