Word: troyes
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...Homer's descriptions of Troy's walls and gates sounded like history, not storytelling. And in excavations begun in 1870 at Hissarlik, a Turkish settlement south of the Dardanelles, he proved that he was right...
Schliemann was the self-taught amateur archaeologist who a century ago used clues in The Iliad to discover and excavate Priam's Troy. He was a truly astonishing man, a German who grubbed away his early youth as an impoverished clerk, then by his middle 20s made a fortune in Russia selling tea, olive oil and indigo. Schliemann traveled to California in 1850, when he was 28, and made another fortune provisioning gold miners. He returned to Russia and accumulated still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown...
...most university-trained scholars, Schliemann's notion was pathetically naive. Homer himself they considered to be not one man but a loose guild of poets, and Troy merely a vivid legend with no basis in fact. Schliemann had money, unlimited energy and formidable intellectual powers on his side of the argument. He is said to have been able to learn a new language in three weeks...
...observes Schliemann solely through the eyes of a wife who never saw him until he was middleaged. Novelizing thus gets in the way of biography; the reader is on hand for the exciting excavation scenes, but not for the development of a mind as rich and extraordinary as Troy itself...
...many homosexuals do live together quietly in stable relationships. Some demand church ceremonies. Three hundred "marriages" have been performed by Los Angeles Gay Minister Troy Perry, founder of the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Church. Perry claims a low "divorce" rate of 15% among his couples...