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

ISBN-13: 9780715635711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str.

Tim Rood

Opis

'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. Their shout has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in Western cultural tradition over years.