Word: schliemann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to the extraordinary discoveries of Dr. Schliemann on the supposed site of the windy city some decades ago, the whole history of Troy and its attackers and defenders was popularly supposed to be nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor...