The odyssey of Heinrich Schliemann

The Independent - London | October 29, 1994| | Copyright

Heinrich Schliemann was a strange figure, and his arrogant, driven and highly anxious nature is inseparable from what was one of the most remarkable quests of 19th-century archaeology, the search for Homer's Troy, the city of Priam and Hector, besieged by Achilles and the Achaeans, come to retrieve their kidnapped Helen.

Schliemann's beginnings were modest. Born in January 1822 in the village of Neu-Buckow on the flat, sandy plains of north-east Germany, he was apprenticed at the age of 14 to a grocer. By the age of 24, by dint of extreme determination and a rare aptitude for languages - he ...

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