title: Homer in Russia
abstract: When Heinrich Schliemann discovered the "Trojan gold" in Turkey in 1871, the elated excavator famously bedecked his wife in the ancient jewels.He claimed the treasure, which he "gave" to Germany, as proof of the historical validity of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Thought lost following World War II, in October of 1994 "Priam's treasure," named for the Trojan king Homer so hauntingly described, was revealed to be at Moscow's Pushkin Museum, where it had been taken from Germany as war spoils.It has r