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One passion, two loves : the story of Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, discoverers of Troy

Title: One passion, two loves : the story of Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, discoverers of Troy / by Lynn and Gray Poole.
Author: Poole, Lynn.
Publication: New York : Crowell, [©1966]

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Poole, Gray Johnson.

Description

xv, 299 pages : illustrations, portraits, map; 22 cm

Summary

"Heinrich Schliemann (German: [li?man]; 6 January 1822? 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology. He was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events ... Schliemann needed an assistant who was knowledgeable in matters pertaining to Greek culture. As he had divorced Ekaterina in 1869, he advertised for a wife in a newspaper in Athens. A friend, the Archbishop of Athens, suggested a relative of his, seventeen-year-old Sophia Engastromenos (1852?1932). Schliemann, age 47, married her in October 1869, despite the 30 year difference in age."--Wikipedia.

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Biography
Biographies.

Note

Includes index.

LCCN

66025434

OCLC

ocm00284890
284890
SCSB-250238

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Princeton University Library