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By Jerry Toner

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 depended on Greek and Roman literature to aid them comprehend the area as soon as referred to as “the Orient.” Even at the present time, the Classics body the West’s courting with the Islamic global, India, and China.

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