Homer's Turk Quotes

“According to the orator Dio Chrysostom, India had rivers of flowing milk and olive oil, its people lived to be over four hundred years old but stayed young and beautiful and had no disease.”
― Jerry Toner, Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

“the people who inhabit the Caucasus “have intercourse with the women in the open and . . . eat the bodies of their kinsmen”; also that it is a place of tough sophists who stand on one leg and hold logs over their heads.”
― Jerry Toner, Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East