HEINRICH Schliemann M THE A B N H E MASKS THE IND A new study of Schliemanris letters and diaries reveals a complex and unpredictablegenius obsessed summer calm with Homer and the ancient Orna the way view chant, the been a citizen mann noted see wind the an was of the his mouth their of way the through the Skamander, the plain his and Mycenae pasand air BY DAVID TURNER merwho Later Empire. in began excavating at Troy its fortune a considerable Russian on Troy German impressions of through morning impeccable owner Greeks long before he sailed Among the enjoying 24, June of plain to Istanbul. deck on the past Piraeus from Neva steamship Dardanelles sengers the French the 1859, morning, diary, the of Troy. that in day, modern meager In for my some had time Heinrich Schlie- Greek: "I could waters of mind's eye which I could now see 1990 37 November/December