Recent Books by Barnaby Rogerson. Those who have acquired a copy of Rogerson's Book of Numbers may be alarmed to hear that this page book is continuing to grow long after the final proofs were signed off, as readers write in with new suggestions or stumble across another totally fascinating numerical virtue. Many of these I hope will be incorporated in a second edition, but for the moment are being aired here The term was borowed by the novelist William Thackeray who set up one of his anti-heroes as a journalist writing gossip for the 'ten thousand' richest citizens of America, and the term rapidly became a code word for the upper class of America, not just the elite of New York.
In Britain in the late 19th-century it had a less restrictive nuance, as this number looked beyond the landed nobility to include officers, civil servants, clerics, doctors and minor gentry all dutifully listed in handbooks such as Kellys, even if the point of these social registers was also to deliberately exclude the new wealth being created by the towns and cities of industrialized Britain.
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This sense of isolated embattlement is an essential quality of this use of 'ten thousand' which has curious links with Xenophon's wonderful adventure story of how 10, Greek mercenaries, fighting on behalf of a Persian prince, fight their way across the hill tribes of Anatolia in order to reach the safety of the Thalassa, the Sea, the Sea.
For halfway through the Peloponnesian War a coup was launched against the democratic regime composed of the normal ragbag elements of any such endeavour; a cabal of generals, the very rich, a charismatic politician Alcibiades - Socrates's young friend supported by the agents of a foreign Empire in this case Persia.
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They established a ruling oligarchy of in BC but they never won the support of the people or the more democratically inclined navy and were tainted with a quisling-like whiff of treason with the Spartan enemy. They would in due course be replaced by the 5,, those citizens who had land enough to support their own team of oxen and harvest bushels of wheat - which was enough to feed mouths a year.
