“What troubled some scholars was not simply the possiblity of discovering an underlying truth but the grisly, chilling notion that if the lost city had been found, then Homer's heroes had lived and ‘it should be possible to find traces, their remains, perhaps even bones.’”
Brackman, a former journalist for The New York Times and the Christian Science Moni-tor, examines the life of Heinrich Schliemann who first claimed discovery of the site of Homer’s Troy. He examines the lasting contribution of Heinrich Schliemann and assesses the personality of this strange obsessed man who like so many amateurs was to make the nineteenth century a period of dazzling discovery.
New York: Mason and Lipscomb, 1974. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 246 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with chipping—in protector. Boards with bumping to corners and some crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages slightly tanned with some foxing on edges. Nice copy.
