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The sea! the sea! : the shout of the ten thousand in the modern imagination

Title: The sea! the sea! : the shout of the ten thousand in the modern imagination / Tim Rood.
Author: Rood, Tim.
Publication: London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2004.

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ix, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book tells the fascinating story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta!' ('The Sea! The Sea!'), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army of Greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, himself a participant in their long march to the coast." "The shout of the Ten Thousand has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Here Tim Rood tells its story for the first time, 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, newspaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.

ISBN

0715633082
9780715633083
1585676640
9781585676644

OCLC

ocm58458212
58458212
SCSB-1347606

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library