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Book and wrapper in very good condition. >>> "I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia. " Sophia Chrysanthis is in her twenties when the celebrated German archaeologist Herr Obermann seeks her out; comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tying canvas sacking to her legs, so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. "Archaeology is not a science, " Obermann says. "It is an art. " Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology-perhaps too good. Obsessive and intuitive, he is a romantic visionary".
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