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  1. Homer's Turk
    How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East
    Author: Toner, Jerry
    Published: 2013; ©2013.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.[u.a.]

    Biographical note: TonerJerry: Jerry Toner is a Fellow at Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge. 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... more

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    Biographical note: TonerJerry: Jerry Toner is a Fellow at Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge. 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 0the Orient.0 Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China.

     

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