Theches: an elusive mountain
This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses what the written sources can and cannot tell us about this iconic spot, comment...
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Cambridge University Press
2025
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| author | G. Brennan and J. Tuplin, Shane, Christopher |
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| description | This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand
famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses what the
written sources can and cannot tell us about this iconic spot, comments on the currently favoured identification
(stressing its dependence on an assumption about the route the army followed to and from the vantage point), and
presents three other places that can come into contention if different assumptions are made about the route. The aim
is not to insist that one or other of these is the correct solution but rather to underline the point that, since we do not
(and are never likely to) know how the Ten Thousand approached Theches, and since there are many points in the
Pontic Mountains behind Trabzon from which the sea can be glimpsed in the far distance, the identity of Theches is
a problem that does not admit of more than conjectural solution. This prompts broader reflections on the textual and
the topographical, and the relationship between landscape and narrative. |
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| spelling | 123456789-6712026-02-18T06:15:31Z Theches: an elusive mountain G. Brennan and J. Tuplin, Shane, Christopher This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses what the written sources can and cannot tell us about this iconic spot, comments on the currently favoured identification (stressing its dependence on an assumption about the route the army followed to and from the vantage point), and presents three other places that can come into contention if different assumptions are made about the route. The aim is not to insist that one or other of these is the correct solution but rather to underline the point that, since we do not (and are never likely to) know how the Ten Thousand approached Theches, and since there are many points in the Pontic Mountains behind Trabzon from which the sea can be glimpsed in the far distance, the identity of Theches is a problem that does not admit of more than conjectural solution. This prompts broader reflections on the textual and the topographical, and the relationship between landscape and narrative. 2025-07-21T06:24:31Z 2025-07-21T06:24:31Z 2023 Article https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/671 en application/pdf Cambridge University Press |
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