Zigana Pass

“Thalatta! Thalatta!” That is, “The sea! The sea!”… In the ‘Anabasis’, Xenophon tells how that cry went up. Ten thousand Greek soldiers had set out to fight for the Persian throne; after a victory at Cunaxa that came to nothing, they lost their commanders and were left alone in the heart of enemy land. For months they marched north, crossing the mountains, snows and passes of Anatolia. And one day, the men at the front were heard shouting from a hilltop…