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Henry Schliemann Discoveries at Mycenae & Tiryns
Henry Schliemann Discoveries at Mycenae & Tiryns
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Author: Schliemann, Henry
Title: Mycenæ; A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
Date Published: 1878
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lxviii, 384 pp. Numerous full-page plates, some folding, 4 color plates at rear. (Large 8vo), original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. First American Edition.



Schliemann was a German businessman and archeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an important archeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His successes lent material weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.

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