The Gold of Troy: The Story of Heinrich Schliemann and the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece

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s/t: The Story of Heinrich Schliemann & the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece The eccentric tycoon who set out to uncover buried Troy Son of a lecherous Mecklenburg pastor he started life as a grocers boy. He made three fortunes and had an income of 1500000 a year at forty. In youth he renounced the company of women making do with hairdressers wax models examined hungrily through shop windows. His first wife was a frigid neurotic and his second (selected from a photograph) was only seventeen and took her dolls with her on her honeymoon. He was cantankerous litigious and quarrelsome - but he has won lasting fame for his discoveries in the buried cities of Ancient Greece. His name was Heinrich Schliemann. Here is his extraordinary story.