001479246 000__ 05702nam\a22012135i\4500 001479246 001__ 1479246 001479246 003__ DE-B1597 001479246 005__ 20231102084855.0 001479246 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479246 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479246 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479246 020__ $$a9780674076280 001479246 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674076280$$2doi 001479246 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209831 001479246 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979574396 001479246 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479246 0410_ $$aeng 001479246 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479246 050_4 $$aDS61.85 001479246 072_7 $$aHIS015000$$2bisacsh 001479246 08204 $$a950.072/041 001479246 1001_ $$aToner, Jerry,$$eauthor. 001479246 24510 $$aHomer's Turk :$$bHow Classics Shaped Ideas of the East /$$cJerry Toner. 001479246 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479246 264_4 $$c©2012 001479246 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479246 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479246 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479246 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479246 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479246 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tPreface --$$tPart I: Contexts --$$t1 Classicizing Orientalisms --$$t2 The Uses of Classics --$$t3 Classics and Medieval Images of Islam --$$tPart II: Texts --$$t4 Traders and Travelers --$$t5 Gibbon's Islam --$$t6 The Roman Raj --$$t7 Empires Ancient and Modern --$$t8 Colonial Adventures --$$tPart III: Afterwords --$$t9 Screen Classics --$$t10 America Roma Nova --$$tNotes --$$tIndex 001479246 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479246 520__ $$aA seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer's Turk. An account of epic sweep, 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 the Classics to help them understand the world once called "the Orient." Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer's Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing-the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other. 001479246 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479246 546__ $$aIn English. 001479246 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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