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Allen, Susan Heuck

Finding the Walls of Troy : Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik

University of California Press, 1998

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Year of publication
1998
ISBN
0520208684
Place of printing
Berkeley CA
Author
Allen, Susan Heuck
Publishers
University of California Press
Edition
First Thus
Keyword
EXCAVATIONS ARCHAEOLOGY BIOGRAPHY SCHLIEMANN HEINRICH 1822 1890, TROY EXTINCT CITY ARCHAEOLOGISTS HISSARLIK FRANK CALVERT
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had launched his career. Now, at long last, Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight in this fascinating archaeological adventure that restores the British expatriate Frank Calvert to his rightful place in the story of the identification and excavation of Hisarlk, the site now thought to be Troy as described in the Iliad. Frank Calvert had lived in the Troad--in the northwest corner of Asia Minor--excavating there for fifteen years before Schliemann arrived and learning the local topography well.