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

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Label

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

Title remainder

the shout of the ten thousand in the modern imagination

Statement of responsibility

Tim Rood

Creator

• Rood, Tim

Subject

• Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C. -- In literature
• Cyrus, the Younger, d. 401 B.C
• English literature -- Greek influences
• Geography, Ancient, in literature
• Greece -- History -- Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C. -- Historiography
• Literature and history -- English-speaking countries
• American literature -- Greek influences
• Middle East -- In literature
• Sea in literature
• Turkey -- In literature
• Xenophon
• Xenophon
• Literature and history -- Middle East

Language

eng

Summary

"'Thalatta! Thalatta!' ('The Sea! The Sea!') was 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. Their shout has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in Western cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Here Tim Rood tells its story for the first time, drawing on a wide range of works - literary masterpieces and romantic fiction, tales of travel and adventure, memoirs of childhood and war, a radio play by Louis MacNeice and a cult Hollywood film. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

PLF

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PR127

LC item number

.R67 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography