Finding the walls of Troy
Subtitle: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlík
By: Susan Heuck Allen.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Calvert, Frank, 1828-1908; Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 -- Professional ethics; Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Consuls -- Turkey -- Biography; Archaeologists -- Germany -- Biography; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Troy (Extinct city); Troy (Extinct city)
Genres: Biography.
Description: Self-promoting Heinrich Schliemann took entire credit for discovering Homer's Troy. For over one hundred years that credit has been accorded to him, and 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 guided him.

Now at long last Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight, and restores the British archaeologist Frank Calvert to his rightful place in the story of the identification and excavation of the city of Priam.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-388) and index.