Homer, Troy and the Turks Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire 1870-1915
Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sourc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2017, [2017]©2017
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| Series: | Heritage and Memory Studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction
- The discovery of Troy : Schliemann and the Ottomans in the 1870s
- Classical antiquities and Ottoman patrimony : the Muslim elite and their involvement with classical civilization
- A closer watch on Schliemann (1882-1885)
- Homer and Troy in Ottoman literature : an overview
- Homer and Troy during the final years of the Empire
- Epilogue of an empire