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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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Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Uslu, Günay
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Temas:	Homer > Influence. 1288-1918 Turkey-History-Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890. HISTORY / General.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

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Cover
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. The Discovery of Troy
Schliemann and the Ottomans in the 1870s
1. The Question of 'ubi Troia fuit'
2. Heinrich Schliemann in the Troad
3. Schliemann's Confrontation with Ottoman Authorities
4. Ottomans Claiming Trojan Artefacts
5. Troy: A Protected Zone
6. Excavating in the Shadow of War
II. Classical Antiquities and Ottoman Patrimony
The Muslim Elite and Their Involvement with Classical Civilization
1. Antiquities and Museum: Interests and Conflicts
2. Zeal for Civilization: Enlightened Ideas and Ideals in the Empire
3. The Cosmopolitan Muslim Elite of a Multifarious Empire
4. Osman Hamdi Bey: A New Era in Ottoman Archaeology and Museology
III. A Closer Watch on Schliemann (1882-1885)
1. Profitable Political Conditions
2. The Excavations
3. The Ottoman Elite's Displeasure with the Ineffective Antiquities Law of 1874
4. New Antiquities Legislation (1884): Ottoman Claim to Ancient Heritage
IV. Homer and Troy in Ottoman Literature
An Overview
1. Early Ottoman-Turkish Interest in the Homeric Epics
2. New Ottoman Literature: Educating the Public and Changing Perceptions
3. Mythology and Homer: Ottoman Reticence
4. Homer and Troy in Ottoman Essays, Books, Plays and the First Translations (1884-1908)
5. Admiration for the 'Lord of Poets'
6. Izmir (Smyrna): Homer's Hometown
V. Homer and Troy during the Final Years of the Empire
1. Controlling Heritage and the Development of the Ottoman Museum
2. Schliemann's Reputation under Fire
3. The Final Encounter of Schliemann and the Ottomans in Troy
4. Finding Troy Once More: Dörpfeld's Excavations in 1893 and 1894
5. Overseeing Troy at the Turn of the Century
Epilogue of an Empire
Manuscript Sources
Bibliography
Index.
List of Illustrations
Figure 1 Frontispiece, Na'im Fraşeri, Ilyada: Eser-i Homer (Istanbul, 1303/1885-1886)
Figure 2 Historical map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, 1792-1870
Figure 3 The Road to Troy
Figure 4 Homer Monument in Izmir, by Turkish sculptor Professor Ferit Özşen, erected in 2002
Figure 5 Wooden horse built for the 2004 Hollywood movie Troy in Çanakkale
Figure 6 Sultan Mehmed II (c. 1480), portrait painted in 1943 by A. Süheyl Űnver (1898-1986)
Figure 7 Sophia Schliemann wearing items from Priam's Treasure, c. 1874
Figure 8 Priam's Treasure
Figure 9 Michael Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror
Figure 10 Heinrich Schliemann, painted by Sydney Hodges, 1877
Figure 11 Schliemann's permit in the Ottoman Archives division of the Prime Minister's Office at Istanbul
Figure 12 Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha, representing the Ottoman government at the Conference of Paris in 1856
Figure 13 Letter from Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha to the palace secretary of Sultan Abdülaziz
Figure 14 Report by Izzeddin Efendi on Schliemann's attempts to smuggle objects past Ottoman customs
Figure 15 Letter from the minister of public instruction
Figure 16 Draft of an Ottoman letter of protest, 6 June 1874
Figure 17 Cartoon published in the satirical magazine Hayal, 12 September 1874
Figures 18 and 19 Employees of the Imperial Museum in front of the Alexander Sarcophagus and the museum entrance in the late nineteenth century
Figure 20 Display of the imperial antiquities collection in the Tiled Pavilion in the later 1870s
Figure 21 Osman Hamdi during excavations at Nemrut Dağı for the Imperial Museum in 1883
Figure 22 Istanbul School of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi), established in 1882. Photo, 1927
Figure 23 Sultan Abdülhamid II and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Figure 24 View of the Substructural Wall at Troy in Schliemann's Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy, 1882 (London, 1884)
Figure 25 Letter from Bedreddin Efendi regarding Heinrich Schliemann
Figure 26 The Ministry of Public Instruction strictly prohibited Schliemann from performing exploratory digs
Figure 27 Letter from the governor of the Dardanelles, Mehmed Reşad, to the Ministry of Public Instruction
Figure 28 Letter from Schliemann to Osman Hamdi Bey
Figure 29 Frontispiece, Na'im Fraşeri, Ilyada: Eser-i Homer (Istanbul, 1303/1885-1886)
Figure 30 Homer's Iliad from Mehmed II's library
Figure 31 Selanikli Hilmi, Ilyas yahud şâir-i şehîr Omiros [The Iliad of the celebrated poet Homer] (Istanbul, 1898 or 1899)
Figure 32 Article in Kevkebü'l Ulum, including a biography of Homer, an introduction to his works and a summary of the Iliad
Figure 33 Article on Homer and the Iliad in the third volume of Kamus ül-Alâm (1891)
Figure 34 Construction of the new building of the Imperial Museum (1891)
Figure 35 Original drawing of the façade of the main building of the Imperial Museum
Figure 36 Hisarlık Conference, 1890
Figure 37 Thymbra Farm served as military quarters for the Ottomans during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915/1916
Figure 38 Esâtîr-i Yunaniyan (Greek mythology) by Mehmed Tevfik Pasha (1855-1915), published in 1913
Figure 39 Sedat Nuri's cartoon of Yahya Kemal in Ancient costume in Peyam-ı Edebi, the literary supplement of the newspaper Peyam, on 26 January 1914
Figure 40 Illustrated travel report in Şehbal in 1913
Figure 41 Times War Atlas (1914)
Figure 42 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

Homer, Troy and the Turks : Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915.

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