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Jerry Toner
Homer’s Turk [EPUB ebook]
How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

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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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Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780674076280 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2629544 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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