Thalatta! Thalatta!

Thalatta! Thalatta! ("The Sea! The Sea!")attic type of ancient ionian and doric dialect (modern greek also) Thalassa,Θάλασσα. The shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontus the Black sea from mountain Theches Θήχης on Armenia(five days march distance from coastal and friendly city Trapezus-Trabzon) after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against Persian Empire in the year 401 BC according to Xenophon's tales in the The Anabasis.


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