> But, more than that, he points out that it shows the world was not divided between East and West in quite the way it was long assumed to be. One of the founda

> But, more than that, he points out that it shows the world was not divided between East and West in quite the way it was long assumed to be. One of the foundational legends of Western culture, it turns out, involved a powerful political actor that lay across the sea from Europe, in what is now Turkey, with influence that extended all the way to central Anatolia. This is very misleading. Anyone familiar with history knows that Anatolia was part of the West — it was, after all, held by the Roman Empire for centuries. It was only lost during the Arab-Byzantine Wars, and the Arabs were eventually replaced by the Turks. But once upon a time, Anatolia was Western.