Sophia: A Woman's Search for Troy

About the Book

SOPHIA is an historical novel inspired by the true life experiences of Sophia Schliemann, the world’s first female archaeologist and the woman who, with her famous husband, Heinrich Schliemann, the father of modern-day archaeology, discovered and excavated the citadels of ancient Troy and Mycenae, breathing life into the golden age of Homer’s ILIAD and the great legend of the Trojan War.

In SOPHIA, Sophia is portrayed as herself, at fi rst a reluctant participant in her husband’s obsessive search for Troy, ultimately his greatest ally and most capable colleague, his friend and lover, her view of the early development of Archaeology branded into her memory as by the age of 18, on the Hill of Hissarlik, she takes part in one of the Nineteenth Century’s most fascinating discoveries. It is Sophia who fi rst realizes that if there was a Troy, so must there be the Greek citadel across the Aegean Sea from which the Greek General, Agamemmnon and his thousand ships have come, and it is Sophia who discovers the grave circle at Mycenae, fulfilling her promise, not only as Heinrich’s wife, but as the Greek woman who breathes life into the legends of her own unique Greek heritage and before the age of thirty, discovers the Great Bronze Age.