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The Sea! The Sea! : The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination
de Rood, Tim
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1585676640
- ISBN 13
- 9781585676644
- Librería
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Duckworth Overlook, 2005 Book. As New. Soft cover. ARC/Advance Reading Copy.. "'The Sea! The Sea! ' tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta!', the shout first uttered on a mountains 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. The shout itself has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. 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 romance 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the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York City. 262p. illus. bibliography.index.
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- Librería
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 039705
- Título
- The Sea! The Sea! : The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination
- Autor
- Rood, Tim
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Edición
- ARC/Advance Reading Copy.
- ISBN 10
- 1585676640
- ISBN 13
- 9781585676644
- Editorial
- Duckworth Overlook
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- GREECE GREEKS XENOPHON TEN THOUSAND ANABASIS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Greek Influence on Art; Greek Influence on Culture; Xenophon;
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