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Children of Achilles : the Greeks in Asia Minor since the days of Troy / John Freely

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Freely, John
Published
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.
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1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
List of Illustrations; Prologue -- The Trojan Plain; 1. The Achaeans in Anatolia; 2. The Great Migration; 3. The Archaic Renaissance; 4. The Persian Wars; 5. Between East and West; 6. Alexander's Dream; 7. Alexander's Successors; 8. Roman Rule and Revelation; 9. New Rome; 10. The Age of Justinian; 11. Medieval Byzantium; 12. Seljuk Turks and Crusaders; 13. The Latin Occupation; 14. The Sons of Osman; 15. The Fall of Byzantium; 16. The Tide of Conquest Turns; 17. Tourkokrateia and the Rhomaioi; 18. Megali Idea and Catastrophia; 19. Exodus and Diaspora; 20. Ionian Elegy; Source Notes.
Summary
Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civiliza.
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ISBN
9781441657398 (electronic bk.)
1441657398 (electronic bk.)
9780857711311
0857711318
9781845119416 (hbk.)
184511941X (hbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
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