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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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That is , the Greek seer still appears to be stuck in the past , rehearsing his old prophecy to Odysseus , perhaps even trav- elling inland in search of Odysseus himself . The Slavs blithely sweep past him , appropriating from the ...
That is , the Greek seer still appears to be stuck in the past , rehearsing his old prophecy to Odysseus , perhaps even trav- elling inland in search of Odysseus himself . The Slavs blithely sweep past him , appropriating from the ...
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8 Two later emigrant Irish writers , Brian Moore and Louis MacNeice , have followed Joyce's lead by using Xenophon's shout to negotiate their relation- ship to their Irish past . Moore evokes Xenophon at the ...
8 Two later emigrant Irish writers , Brian Moore and Louis MacNeice , have followed Joyce's lead by using Xenophon's shout to negotiate their relation- ship to their Irish past . Moore evokes Xenophon at the ...
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In Williams ' American setting , as for some of the Irish writers discussed earlier , Xenophon's sea stands for nostalgia for the past . But it is no longer quite the same nostalgia that it was for James Joyce and Louis MacNeice ...
In Williams ' American setting , as for some of the Irish writers discussed earlier , Xenophon's sea stands for nostalgia for the past . But it is no longer quite the same nostalgia that it was for James Joyce and Louis MacNeice ...
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