Episode R7 – The Man Who Sold Troy

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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“Who will persuade me, when I reclined upon a mighty tomb, that it did not contain a hero? – its very magnitude proved this. Men do not labour over the ignoble and petty dead – and why should not the dead be Homer’s dead?” – George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1810 Three millennia after its fall, British archaeologist Frank Calvert used clues from Homer, and his own deep knowledge of the region, to establish the most likely site of ancient Troy. Unable to finance the excavation, he was compelled to partner with wealthy enthusiast Heinrich Schliemann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	Episode R7, the man who sold Troy.
1:25.8	The fleet anchored in Bessica Bay, shielded by a range of hills from the gaze of ancient Troy.
1:33.0	During the Aegean crossing, the soldiers had prepared themselves for the war to come.
1:39.0	Knowing the strength of their enemy, their rulers had forged an unheard of alliance. the 53 AD, over 3,000 years since the fall of Troy.
1:56.5	The fearsome enemy was the Russian Empire, and the Alliance of Convenience were the Great European Powers of England and France,
2:06.0	acting in support of Ottoman Turkey.
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