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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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... wanted to escape from the city - that is , from the oppression of the restored Athenian democracy - to the freedom of a frontier region . " Xenophon emerges from such accounts as a Frederick Burnaby , the legen- darily strong British ...
... wanted to escape from the city - that is , from the oppression of the restored Athenian democracy - to the freedom of a frontier region . " Xenophon emerges from such accounts as a Frederick Burnaby , the legen- darily strong British ...
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... wanted . And he even needed his wife's selfless encouragement to paint the Xenophon as large as he did : ' Took down a large canvas & looked with longing eyes . At last I thought it no harm to draw in Xenophon with chalk ... & while I ...
... wanted . And he even needed his wife's selfless encouragement to paint the Xenophon as large as he did : ' Took down a large canvas & looked with longing eyes . At last I thought it no harm to draw in Xenophon with chalk ... & while I ...
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... wanted , but what he wanted them to want . And we do have access to the aspirations and anxieties that he expressed in his journal . There is in any case a public dimension to the virtues that the painting celebrates . It has to do with ...
... wanted , but what he wanted them to want . And we do have access to the aspirations and anxieties that he expressed in his journal . There is in any case a public dimension to the virtues that the painting celebrates . It has to do with ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
Copyright | |
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adventure allusion Anabasis ancient Armenia army Arrian Athenian Athens Autobiography 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 route saw the sea scene on Mount seaside seems seen shouted Thalatta sight soldiers T.E. Lawrence Ten Thousand Greeks Thalassa Thalatta thought Tozer Trabzon trans Trapezus Trebizond triumph Turkey Victorian words writers wrote Xenophon Xenophon's account Xenophon's Greeks Xenophon's sea Xenophon's shout Yurick's