Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann, the famous German archaeologist, was seized by a great and passionate dream from childhood. He knew by heart Homer’s “Odyssey” and “Iliad” and Virgil’s “Aeneid.” As a child, he encountered them in poor German translations, but later, already as an adult, he learned ancient languages to read and reread his favorite poems. He passionately believed that the people cannot be wrong—that the Troy described by Homer, with its “bronze-armored” defenders and opponents, truly existed, perhaps only a little embellished by storytellers and singers. And in his life Schliemann pursued only one goal: to find and dig up the vanished Troy, bring it into the light of the sun, and make that dead treasure the property of the entire world—because the cyclopean walls of the invincible fortress couldn’t have crumbled after just three or four thousand years, into which enemies could penetrate only from within the Trojan horse; the bronze gates couldn’t have fallen even under the power of an all-consuming fire; the weapons of Troy’s defenders and Priam’s treasures couldn’t have completely perished, even if the city had been sacked! In this audiobook you’ll find a story about the life of the famous German archaeologist, about the excavations of Troy and other centers of Mycenaean culture.