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Alessandro Baricco, Omero, Iliade (Collana Economica Feltrinelli, Feltrinelli, 2004).

L.S. Klein, Bodiless Heroes: Origin of the Images of the Iliad (St. Petersburg: Khudozhestvennaya Literature, 1992); p. 4.

Heinrich Alexander Stoll, Der Traum von Troja (Leipzig, 1956).

Under the Russian law Heinrich Schliemann and Yekaterina Lyzhina remained married.

V.P. Tolstikov, “Heinrich Schliemann and Trojan Archaeology”, The Treasures of Troy. The Finds of Heinricha Schliemann. Exhibiton catalogue (Мoscow: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Leonarde Arte, 1996); p. 18.

А.V. Strelkov, “The Legend of Doctor Schliemann” in G. Schliemann, Ilion. The city and country of the Trojans . Vol. 1 (Мoscow: Central Polygraph, 2009); p. 11.

D.A. Traill, Excavating Schliemann: Collected Papers on Schliemann (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993), p. 40.

Seventeen year old Sophia Schliemann was practically bought for 150,000 francs from her uncle, a Greek bishop Teokletos Vimpos.

V.P. Tolstikov, “Heinrich Schliemann and Trojan Archaeology”, The Treasures of Troy. The Finds of Heinricha Schliemann. Exhibiton catalogue (Мoscow: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Leonarde Arte, 1996); p. 18.

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans (Praeger, 1963).

Heinrich Schliemann, Ilios, City and Country of the Trojans (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Actually it was with the publication in 1950 of his epistolary heritage that the perception of Schliemann’s personality began to change. Comparing data from Schliemann’s letters and his autobiography, the researchers found that “the great archaeologist” was lying at every turn.

American researcher David Treyll insisted that Priam Treasure was a fraud. D.A. Traill, Excavating Schliemann: Collected Papers on Schliemann (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993).

It was only in 1882 during excavations that architect Wilhelm Dörpfeldw invited to reconstruct urban planning of different periods of the Troy history explained that to Schliemann. After having spent four days in his tent in silence, Schliemann acknowledged that his colleague was right.

In 1876 Russian Archaeological Society was trying to buy Schliemann’s collection. However, the price was unaffordable.

After the exhibition several countries claimed “the treasures of Priam”: Germany (who received it as a gift), Turkey (where they were found), and even Greece (where they had supposedly belonged).

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans .

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans.

Etymologically the name Hesion associated with the word Asia. Hesion – asiyka, a resident of Anatolia. (L.A. Gindin, V.L. Tsymbursky, Homer and the history of the oriental Mediterranean (Мoscow: Vostochnaya Literature, 1996); p. 53).

When she became the wife of Telamon, Hesion bore Teucer, who thus became the half-brother of Ajax Telamonid.

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans.

C. Baikouzis, M.O. Magnasco, “Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 24 (2008). URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/26/8823.full

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans .

A. Furumark, Mycenaean Pottery I: Analysis and Classification (Stockholm, 1941).

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans .

Carl Blegen, Troy and the Trojans .

Strabo, Geography , XIII, 25.

Strabo, Geography, XIII, 27.

Strabo, Geography , I, 2.

R.V. Gordeziani, Issues of the Homeric Epos (Tbilisi, Tbilisi University Publishing House, 1978); p. 161.

Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War (Plume, 1987).

Lord Byron, Journals , jan. 11, 1821.

R.V. Gordeziani, Issues of the Homeric Epos; p. 162.

Perhaps the first guess about the difference between time of Homer’s world and the time described in Iliad was made at the beginning of the 18[[th]] century by Giambattista Vico, an Italian philosopher (See Vico, Giambattista. The New Science , III).

During his expedition Parry had written down a poem of a Bosnian Avdo Međedović The Wedding of Meho Smailagić that had more than 12,000 lines, that is equal to the volume of the Odyssey. (Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1960)). This was the proof of the possibility of a similar volume of works in the unwritten culture.

Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales .

Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (London: Cohen&West, 1970).

Palace at Pylos, where they found the tablets with texts written with this type of writing, was opened in the early 1950s by Carl Blegenom.

M. Ventris, J. Chadwick, “Evidence for Greek dialect in the Mycenaean archives”, The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Vol. 73 (1953); pp. 84–103.

John Chadwick, The Decipherment of Linear B (Cambridge at the University Press, 1967).

Paul Faure, La Grèce au temps de la Guerre de Troie. 1250 avant J.-C. (Paris, Hachette, 1975).

The leader of the Achaeans Agamemnon makes key decisions not on his own, but at the Military Council. See Iliad, II, 50–444.