The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationDuckworth Overlook, 2005 - 262 oldal This 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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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51. oldal
... looked up . So he looked up . Smoke lay in wind- less drifts too close upon the dark mass of the city for the river's course to be traced through it , and he saw no coloured sails . The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have ...
... looked up . So he looked up . Smoke lay in wind- less drifts too close upon the dark mass of the city for the river's course to be traced through it , and he saw no coloured sails . The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have ...
199. oldal
... looked down upon the Lombard plain , and saw Verona and its towers and the white river bed below them : so did Xenophon and Cortez , and every adventurer and pilgrim , before them or after . Freya Stark , The Valleys of the Assassins ...
... looked down upon the Lombard plain , and saw Verona and its towers and the white river bed below them : so did Xenophon and Cortez , and every adventurer and pilgrim , before them or after . Freya Stark , The Valleys of the Assassins ...
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... looked upon Marathon ... and Marathon looked on the sea ' ) . The great Greek resistance against Persian invaders was a far more appropriate setting for a cry of national triumph than the retreat of a bunch of mercenaries . So too with ...
... looked upon Marathon ... and Marathon looked on the sea ' ) . The great Greek resistance against Persian invaders was a far more appropriate setting for a cry of national triumph than the retreat of a bunch of mercenaries . So too with ...
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A Stray Genius | 109 |
In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand | 134 |
The Snotgreen Sea | 162 |
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adventure allusion Anabasis ancient Armenia army Arrian Athenian Athens Benjamin Robert Haydon Black Sea British cairn childhood classical coast Cyrus described desert Diary Dunkirk earlier English escape Eucles Euphrates exhibition famous father feel Fergus Finnegans Wake Fleming Galata Glazebrook Greece Haydon Haydon's painting Heine hero heroic History imagination James Joyce journey Joyce Joyce's Kinglake Kinneir Kurdistan land later London looked Louis MacNeice MacNeice's Magazine modern Mount Theches mountains narrative nineteenth century novel ocean orig Oxford parasangs perhaps Persian Persian Wars picture poem poet published readers Rennell retreat romantic Ronald Knox route saw the sea scene on Mount seaside seems seen shouted Thalatta sight soldiers T.E. Lawrence Ten Thousand Greeks Thalassa Thalatta Thomson thought Tozer Trabzon trans Trebizond triumph Turkey Victorian writers wrote Xenophon Xenophon's account Xenophon's Greeks Xenophon's sea Xenophon's shout Yurick