The Sea! the Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination - Couverture rigide

Rood, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1585676640 ISBN 13 : 9781585676644

Editeur : Overlook Books, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Rood Tim

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'In 'The Sea! The Sea!' the British classical scholar Tim Rood has assembled a huge collection of ways in which Xenophon's words have, as he says, 'twisted and played' in the modern imagination ... triumphant' -- Peter Stothard, Wall Street Journal. 'an unusual and fascinating book ... delightfully compelling' -- Eric Ormsby, New York Sun. 'so enjoyable to read ... takes an honourable place among studies of that perenially fascinating theme, the reinterpretation by the modern world of ancient Greece' --Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement

'There will be no reader, I confidently predict, who won't be taken aback at the sheer variety of Xenophon's heritage ... and who won't be delighted by the highways and byways of such a journey' --Simon Goldhill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'a real tour de force of readable scholarship ... he tells a story that is excitingly enjoyable and displays ... the fruits of impressively wide and profound scholarship' --Anglo-Hellenic Review

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585676640
• ISBN 13: 9781585676644
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256