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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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... offered ' a better chance of adventure ' than most places , because he had seen something of the west , and now wanted to see the east and tread the golden road to Samarkand . Or perhaps ( and the point is that there are many such ...
... offered ' a better chance of adventure ' than most places , because he had seen something of the west , and now wanted to see the east and tread the golden road to Samarkand . Or perhaps ( and the point is that there are many such ...
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... offered by travellers like W.G. Browne , the ' melancholy tale ' of whose murder by banditti between Tabriz and Tehran was still ringing in his ears as he wrote , but who had at least discovered the elevation of Erzerum in his last ...
... offered by travellers like W.G. Browne , the ' melancholy tale ' of whose murder by banditti between Tabriz and Tehran was still ringing in his ears as he wrote , but who had at least discovered the elevation of Erzerum in his last ...
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... offered by Household and Johnson is ( literally ) false . What awaited Xenophon was exile from Athens - an event that he does mention in the Anabasis , but so cryptically that it is extremely unclear , and still a matter for debate ...
... offered by Household and Johnson is ( literally ) false . What awaited Xenophon was exile from Athens - an event that he does mention in the Anabasis , but so cryptically that it is extremely unclear , and still a matter for debate ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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