Abstract

An admirer of Lawrence of Arabia, Milman Parry was cut from the same romantic cloth as Heinrich Schliemann. Imbued with a peculiar conviction by their scrutiny of the Homeric texts, both men sought vindication in the field, Schliemann in Turkey, Parry in Yugoslavia. The photograph of a dapper Parry swathed in native costume and sporting ajaunty cigarette holder recalls the photograph of a somewhat uncomfortable Sophie Schliemann draped triumphantly by her husband with the jewels of Helen. Both men altered the course of Homeric studies: Schliemann revealed the

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