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

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

Jerry Toner

306 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A 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 me...

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