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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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135. oldal
... Arrian had followed Xenophon's footsteps , for a while at least , and claimed that he had seen the Black Sea with pleasure from the same place as Xenophon . No one since Arrian had made the same claim . ' The Ancients ... knew these ...
... Arrian had followed Xenophon's footsteps , for a while at least , and claimed that he had seen the Black Sea with pleasure from the same place as Xenophon . No one since Arrian had made the same claim . ' The Ancients ... knew these ...
139. oldal
... Arrian had seen a statue of Hadrian erected there ) . The sickly Jaubert also entered imaginatively into the experiences of the Ten Thousand when he pictured himself ' in the same position as the Greek of whom Xenophon speaks ' who ...
... Arrian had seen a statue of Hadrian erected there ) . The sickly Jaubert also entered imaginatively into the experiences of the Ten Thousand when he pictured himself ' in the same position as the Greek of whom Xenophon speaks ' who ...
146. oldal
... Arrian's comment that he saw the sea from the same spot as Xenophon and Hadrian is parenthetical : the location of the statue of Hadrian is fixed by Arrian's initial statement that he arrived at Trapezus . The statue of Hadrian was not ...
... Arrian's comment that he saw the sea from the same spot as Xenophon and Hadrian is parenthetical : the location of the statue of Hadrian is fixed by Arrian's initial statement that he arrived at Trapezus . The statue of Hadrian was not ...
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Eastern Adventure | 223 |
14 | 232 |
In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand | 238 |
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