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Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

By Jerry Toner

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780674076280
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674076280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1381965 bytes)
Pages
318\318
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 06:06:40

Description

Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China.

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