#Schliemann

[flintdibble]

Frankish Tower in Athens

#DailyArchaeology

This medieval tower was built at the entrance (Propylaia) to the Athenian Acropolis in the 13th century by the Frankish rulers of the duchy of Athens.

Heinrich Schliemann successfully campaigned to demolish it in 1874

This photo gives a sense of how modern our ancient sites are

Here's another other photo of this tower. It was a major component of the Athenian skyline until 1874

The campaign to clean, conserve, and curate ruins is not always clear to a tourist, but it's an important component to consider when trying to picture archaeological sites

A last photo of this tower. The two above were taken by unknown photographers (according to wikimedia)

William James Stillman might have taken this one

I kinda think the Acropolis would look cooler with a prominent medieval tower still there. Gives it some style and a deeper sense of history

On Mastodon, someone asked about the outline of a building visible in the last photo, wondering if it was from the Classical Acropolis

I answered that it's more recent because the outline is visible on the stones of both the Propylaia and the Tower. Standard architectural phasing.

With a quick search, I was able to find an earlier watercolor that proves it, showing the Acropolis in the 19th century, prior to excavation and restoration. Yup, there's a more recent building (probably Ottoman period?) abutting the Frankish Tower.

#archaeology #history #athens #greece #attica #schliemann #ancient architecture

[whereishermes]

Homer and the Trojan War

Homer, one of the most renowned ancient Greek poets, lived around 750 BCE or possibly a little later. Despite his fame, very little is known about his origins, including his birthplace, claimed by at least seven different locations in antiquity. It is uncertain whether the individual referred to as “Homer” was a single person or a group working together or separately. Some even dispute whether he…

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#Archaeological #Archaeology #culture #greece #greek #hisarlik #history #homer #iliad #museum #mythology #odyssey #Schliemann #story #travel #trojan #turkey #war

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[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Why not send a love letter to your fellow Schliemann haters while you’re at it…

Archaeology Valentines Extravaganza part 3

#yes… Schliemann did divorce his wife in order to marry someone who could speak Greek #heinrich schliemann #archaeology #ARCHAEOLOGY VALENTINES EXTRAVAGANZA #history #Troy #Heinrich slimey #Heinrich Schliemann hate club #valentines day #my memes #valentines letters #kaboom goes troy #DYNAMITE?? REALLY?!

[kinsey3furry300]

Just saw an advert for a Discovery channel program called "Blowing up History."

Heinrich Schliemann, get back in your cold dark grave!

#The British museum is back and this time they're not taking prisoners #heinrich schliemann #archaeology memes #Archaeology humor #Shitpost

[esoclectic]

reasons we should invent time travel: so I can go back in time and steal all of Arthur Evans' funding for excavations at Knossos and give it to Minos Kalokairinos, the local Cretan man who was the first to excavate and map Knossos but got kicked out of the picture by Mr I-Have-The-Money-To-Bring-My-Homeric-Wet-Dream-To-Life

#eso speaks #if another person ever tries to justify heinrich schliemann arthur evans or god forbid fucking howard carter to me again #i am going to light them and myself on fire #ancient history #archaeology #fuck arthur evans #archaeology and ancient history as disciplines #both today and in the past #have a fucking LOT to answer for

[basil-bird]

mourning lost information

something i both love and hate about humans is our inability to record everything. on one hand, how beautiful is it that each life has so many experiences that they can't possibly all be preserved? that another life will know the experiences of those before them, but also experience a full life of their own? that every person lives over and over again through the past and the future?

on the other hand...there's only so much we can understand about ancient cultures, and it drives me crazy. we can look at the barest of everyday items and try to piece together what life was like, but even cultures that we feel we know really well, we don't really know at all. there are infinitely more questions than answers for the ancient world, despite everyone's best efforts to preserve it. relatively speaking, most of the world has been lost to time and the fallibility of human memory. we can never know everything. i am dying to know everything.

if god wasn't lying and i really get to stand before him, he better have a powerpoint ready. i want to know what the FUCK was up with the minoans.

#another day another reason to hate heinrich schliemann #i can understand his enthusiasm #but for the love of GOD man be careful with all that old shit #tagamemnon #arch #anthro #ancient lang #ancient lit #linguistics #Πυλάδης nuts #concepts and musings

[muspeccoll]

From the classroom: a book owned by at least three prominent classicists and folklorists, inscribed by Heinrich Schliemann in Greek "To the lover of the arts Mr. [Erik Barren or Henry Warren?] as a memorial. 1874. Schliemann," and later from Samuel Preston Bayard to Albert Bates Lord. Bayard was a renowned folklorist and musicologist, and Lord's work was foundational in the study of oral traditions such as the Iliad and Odyssey. RARE DF220 .S34 1869

#heinrich schliemann #classics #greek #classicists #albert lord #mizzou #special collections #libraries #rare books #bookhistory

[greekmythcomix]

Crabamemnon (2022)

Because of boredom and this Twitter exchange: https://twitter.com/moominmartha/status/1485215191927296001?s=46

#crabamemnon #Agamemnon #tagamemnon #mask of Agamemnon #I hate you Schliemann #greek mythology #greek myth #illustration #homer #iliad #stupid

[dapurinthos]

don't you love the colour of klytaimestra's tomb?

#mycenae #tomb of clytamnestra #me shaking my fist at heinrich schliemann

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Thank you to @ghostoz for the world's most infuriating postage stamp

#he speaks #mail #heinrich schliemann

[mythosphere]

Not all archeologists were wildly unethical. Explodes Hisarlik Georg, who destroyed nine levels of ancient Troy including the one he was looking for, is an outlier and should not be counted

#fuck you schliemann #two names every classics major hates: schliemann and elgin #fuck you too elgin #greek mythology #ancient greek #ancient history #archaeoblr #archeology #classics tag #classics #tagamemnon

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Currently taking a German class so that I can roast Heinrich Schliemann in his native tongue

#Heinrich Schliemann hate club #archaeology #he better know I’m coming for him #he thought death was bad enough #German class #heinrich schliemann

[liminalmemories21]

Okie dokie, nice ask time! What's your favorite art history fact you haven't gotten a chance to use in knave verse?

Hi!

Okay, let's talk about Priam's Gold, and why Heinrich Schliemann was a shitty shitty archaeologist (also about how archaeology in the 19th C was the wild west of disciplines).

So, Schliemann is a wealthy industrialist with a PhD in Classics, but the important part about this is that he has stupid amounts of money and a generalized interest in Greek history. He gets a dig permit from the Ottomans, and fucks around, and is about to give up when he gets a tip from another amateur archaeologist to go dig one hill over, so he does and finds this enormous cache of Bronze Age treasure - including the famous diadem. He - for reasons - declares that he's found Troy, and this is Priam's Treasure.

There's a really famous picture of his wife, draped in the gold of Troy.

Anyway, he smuggles the gold out of the dig site and then out of the Ottoman Empire when the Ottomans start getting curious about what he's doing and what he's found.

The gold ends up in Berlin, and then in WWII gets 'rescued' from looting and 'handed over' to the Red Army for 'safe keeping' and disappears. Soviet Russia denies for decades that they have it, and the only evidence that it ever existed is the picture of Schliemann's wife wearing it. They didn't admit they had it until 1994 when the Pushkin Museum was like, so about that gold . . .

Schliemann's excavation technique was . . . sketchy to say the least, and then he basically up and ran away with all of it, and nobody knows exactly where he was digging. So there are a lot of questions about the authenticity of the find (most people speculate it's probably a composite of finds), doubts about the location being the historical Troy, and because he didn't really document it there's no way to date it by layer, or see where it was found, or what might have been near it.

#nice asks #art history #schliemann's gold

[anticapitalistclown]

On Twitter, I got asked:

You can invite five historical figures to dine with you. Alive or dead, from any field, a night to talk, understand, share, get to know… Who are you inviting?

my choices are:

Augustus

Hatshepsut

Alexander the Great

Maria A. Capmany

Panagiotis Stamatakis (we would criticize Schliemann to death)

what about you? I would love to know

#augustus #hatshepsut #alexander the great #maria aurelia capmany #panagiotis stamatakis #heinrich schliemann #history

[c-kiddo]

really super interesting video:

vry interesting thoughts about who owns artefacts (the people or governments where they were found), if they should be cared for and where, if they should be removed before they’re destroyed, dead peoples bodies, colonialism of course, and etc etc etc

#kiddo say #oh to go back in time and punch schliemann #every new thing i learn abt him is jus like. . . .man cmon. fuckin idiot