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Thalatta! Thalatta! Sei mir gegrüßt, du ewiges Meer! ('Sea! Sea! Be greeted by me, you eternal sea!') The cry is also mentioned by the narrator of Frederick Amadeus Malleson's (1877) translation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, [9] when the explorers in the story discover an underground ocean. It is absent from the ...
Thalatta! ", "The sea, the sea!". [6] "The sea" meant that they were at last among Greek cities but it was not the end of their journey, which included a period fighting for Seuthes II of Thrace and ended with their recruitment into the army of the Spartan general Thibron. Xenophon related this story in Anabasis in a simple and direct manner.
A 5th century Roman mosaic of Thalassa, in the Hatay Archaeological Museum [1]. Thalassa (/ θ ə ˈ l æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Θάλασσα, romanized: Thálassa, lit. 'sea'; [2] Attic Greek: Θάλαττα, Thálatta [3]) was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology.
Θάλαττα, θάλαττα — Thalatta! Thalatta! (The Sea! The Sea!) — painting by Bernard Granville Baker, 1901. The 1965 novel The Warriors is inspired by Anabasis. It tells the story of a gang (the Dominators) from New York's Coney Island forced to fight their way home from the Bronx after an all-city gang meeting at which a would-be ...
The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from death. Conradi states that the direct source of the title is Paul Valéry's poem Le Cimetiere Marin (The Graveyard by the Sea).
It tells the story of a couple of differing backgrounds and beliefs and how they unite amidst the opposition of their families. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja with cinematography by Anandakuttan. Kadhalukku Mariyadhai was released on 19 December 1997 to positive reviews and became a box-office blockbuster. It was also Shalini’s first ...
Thálatta! Thálatta! (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα!— "The Sea! The Sea!") was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) in Trebizond, after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC.
Thalatta!" – "The sea! The sea!", the local people understood them. ... A Young Girl's True Story of Genocide and Survival by Thea Halo, ...