Theches: an elusive mountain

IF 0.3 1区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI:10.1017/S0066154623000054
Shane Brennan, Christopher J. Tuplin
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Abstract 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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这是一座难以捉摸的山
本文讨论了切斯山的位置,色诺芬的一万人在经过漫长而艰苦的行军穿越安纳托利亚东部后,正是从切斯山的有利位置第一次看到了大海。它讨论了书面资料可以和不能告诉我们的关于这个标志性地点的信息,对目前受欢迎的识别的评论(强调它依赖于对军队到达和离开有利位置的路线的假设),并提出了其他三个地方,如果对路线做出不同的假设,可能会引起争论。我们的目的并不是坚持认为其中的一个或另一个是正确的答案,而是强调这一点,因为我们不知道(也不可能)知道一万大军是如何接近切什的,因为在特拉布宗后面的本蒂克山脉中有许多地方可以从远处瞥见大海,切什的身份是一个只能通过猜测来解决的问题。这引发了对文本和地形的更广泛的思考,以及景观和叙事之间的关系。
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期刊介绍: Anatolian Studies contains articles focused on Turkey and the Black Sea littoral in all academic disciplines within the arts, humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences as related to human occupation and history. Articles are in English and are accessible to a wide academic readership. Anatolian Studies is a refereed journal.
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