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A group of white stone buildings, with the Acropolis complex at the top, sit on a hill surrounded by trees at sunset.
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Was the Acropolis a Harem? A Myth of Orientalism

Janric van Rookhuijzen
New research makes a case for reexamining the way 15th-century Turks used the Acropolis of Athens—and the role of Western beliefs in exoticizing the people of the Ottoman Empire.