Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-298) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 16. In Temporary Keeping. 1. Pandora and Her Box -- 2. Mecklenburg Childhood -- 3. Man of Substance -- 4. Clever, Crafty and Competent -- 5. Great Need to Know -- pt. II Search for Troy -- 6. Speechless Past -- 7. Good and Loving Heart -- 8. Belonging to the Dark Night -- 9. Singing of the City -- 10. Hour of Greet Need -- 11. Nothing but the Glory -- 12. Fairly Heedless World -- 13. Civilization at Play -- 14. Pallas Athene Intervenes -- pt. III Berlin and After -- 15. Dead and Wounded Art -- 16. In Temporary Keeping.
Summary:
Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity? But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann?a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist, courageous and driven?to solve one of the greatest puzzles in history. His extraordinary discovery of the ruins of fabled Troy and the magnificent treasure of King Priam anointed Schliemann as the 'father of pre-history', but was also beset by controversy that persists to this day. The fate of the treasure itself is no less troubled. In 1945 it was spirited out of Berlin by the Red Army, to be hidden for 50 years in the vaults of the Pushkin Museum until the breakup of the Soviet Union. In this fast-paced account, Caroline Moorehead describes one of the most remarkable adventures of the 20th century, tracing Schliemann's footsteps to Troy and the convoluted journey across Europe taken by the treasure itself.
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