Heinrich Schliemann

Germany never turned their attention to the dangers of politics that were a result of the imperial system. Another importance highlighted in this chapter is the rise of nationalism, which was coined by three gentlemen: Theodor Mommsen, Heinrich von Sybel, and Heinrich von Trietschke. Most of these men held the same characteristics: a liberal who was a monarchist, a rigorous scholar whose nationalism bordered on racism. One of Sybel’s coined ideas was that great men make history, that “the masses…

Although Homer’s story of Troy and the Trojan war is certainly not the only story from the Trojan War cycle, it is certainly one of the most influential telling of the story. Even though Heinrich Schliemann was the first earnest excavator on site, the city of Troy was a common place of visitation for the ancient Greeks who wished to see with their own eyes the setting of the story they all knew so well. Homer’s Iliad gives us a wonderful idea of…

cities. Notably, the Mycenaean Age was named after the city of Mycenae. Prior to Heinrich Schliemann’s excavations of Troy, the Mycenaean’s as well as Troy were a lost civilization. Many archeologists started to find significance and interest in the Greek Bronze Age when Heinrich Schliemann began to conduct excavations in the 1870’s in the search for Troy, heroes of the Trojan War, and Agamemnon’s palace. Once Schliemann began to excavate artifacts that matched Homer’s description of the opulent…

writing, the war started with the capture of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. They demanded that she be returned to them but the Trojans refused. Some believe, however that this could be a legend or story. An archeologist named Heinrich Schliemann conducted excavations in Turkey, where Troy would have been, and suggested that stories of Troy that we know today were based on real cities, events, and people. The Greeks began looking for ways to break into the city for about ten years,…

Section A Apodexis, Aitiai, Istoria Herodotus histories were considered as the founding work of history in the western literature era. There are many aspects that are recurred to understand history. Apodexis is needed when a demonstration revolves into proof. Aitiai coincided with Istoria, whereas Aitiai is greek for cause and the ability to find out a reason for something. While Istoria focuses on the written accounts of others and their varied histories. Cleon, Diodotus, Mytilenian The…

deteriorated into legend. The Bronze Age of ancient Greece, lasted roughly from 3000 to 1200 BCE and provided much of the maligned legends and tales depicted in the Homeric memoirs of both The Iliad and The Odyssey. “It wasn’t until 1872 that Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman turned archaeologist, uncovered a Bronze Age, walled citadel that would be identified as the ancient city of Troy.”(Classical Wisdom, Socrates 1). It should be…

whole body until it had fallen over. The head of Sargon is currently located in the Iraq Museum, in Baghdad. The funerary mask of Agamemnon assumes to be made during the 1550-1500 BC. The artwork was found in Grave Circle A, Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann. Schliemann believed it belonged to Agamemnon but later realized that the mask was placed about three hundred years before Agamemnon was a alive. Although the mask may not be Agamemnon, the sculpture is still being called the Mask of…

Many people commonly associate archaeology with Indiana Jones, a risk taking adventurer who seeks distant lands to gather treasure. Booby traps and aggressive natives also concord with this instinctive fantasy. This is often not at all the case. Archaeologists are attributed to have curiosity, passion, determination and critical thinking skills. They take an unknown area of history and think to ask questions that no one has ever attempted to answer. How an archaeologist excavates an…

The Bronze Age in the Mediterranean Grecian regions was a time for exploration and war, trade and commerce, and ingenuity. Two monumental cultures with the evident demise influenced one another through economy, architecture, and logogram. The Minoans originated on the island of Crete, and their palace and administrative center titled Knossos. The Mycenaean culture, on the other hand, flourished on the mainland of Greece, in the palaces of Pylos and Mycenae. Both cultures thrived from maritime…

The Lost City of Atlantis The Lost City of Atlantis? Was it really there or was it all a myth? There are many scientists, archaeologists, geologists and other professionals that got interested in this mystery. Therefore, they started a series of investigations and researches to find out whether it was a true story or just a fantasy. Hence there are so many theories nowadays which differ from each other. Charles Orser, curator of history at the New York State Museum in Albany, says “Pick a spot…