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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have looked more dreary to Xenophon's Ten Thousand , or more unlike the sea - girt isles they pined for , than the scene from his window looked to Tresham . Even though he is slowly defeating ...
The grey gravel plains of Mesopotamia cannot have looked more dreary to Xenophon's Ten Thousand , or more unlike the sea - girt isles they pined for , than the scene from his window looked to Tresham . Even though he is slowly defeating ...
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becomes the joyful shout of the modernist release from literary convention . Joyce makes further use of Xenophon's sight of the sea later in Ulysses . Here it is Simon Dedalus ( Stephen's father ) talking : ' And Xenophon looked upon ...
becomes the joyful shout of the modernist release from literary convention . Joyce makes further use of Xenophon's sight of the sea later in Ulysses . Here it is Simon Dedalus ( Stephen's father ) talking : ' And Xenophon looked upon ...
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So did those old Barbarians feel who first from the Alpine wall 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 ...
So did those old Barbarians feel who first from the Alpine wall 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 ...
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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