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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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Description
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the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C. > In literature
  • Xenophon
  • Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C
  • Xenophon v430-v354
  • Anabasis (Xenophon)
  • 401-401 B.C
  • Geschichte 1800-2000
  • English literature > Greek influences
  • Literature and history > English-speaking countries
  • American literature > Greek influences
  • Literature and history > Middle East
  • Geography, Ancient, in literature
  • Sea in literature
  • Classical geography in literature
  • Classical geography in literature
  • English literature > Greek influences
  • Geography, Ancient, in literature
  • Historiography
  • Literature
  • Literature and history
  • Sea in literature
  • Kultur
  • Rezeption
  • Zeeën
  • Letterkunde
  • Beeldende kunsten
  • Receptie
  • Greece > History > Historiography. > Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C
  • Middle East > In literature
  • Turkey > In literature
  • English-speaking countries
  • Greece
  • Middle East
  • Turkey
  • Europa
  • USA
Genre/Form
History
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