ABSTRACT
Heinrich Schliemann, having amassed a considerable fortune selling supplies during the Crimean War, abandoned the grocery trade and turned his attention and his resources to his personal passion: the archaeology of the Trojan War. Schliemann had not unearthed the House of Atreus entirely unaided, nor was his success greeted everywhere with warm enthusiasm. Christian Habicht's declaration of an origin for professional archaeology in Schiiemann's remarkable discoveries at Mycenae neglects earlier significant excavations - in Mesopotamia, at Rome and Pompeii, and in Egypt by Napoleonic expeditions. The most pressing question which followed Schliemann's discoveries concerned the ownership of the ancient past. By the time D. Macmillan published his translation and commentary, James Frazer had been at work on Pausanias for fourteen years and had forged a bond with Pausanias stronger than that of translator and commentator. Second-century Greece described in Pausanias exists, in Frazer's interpretation, in 'the Indian summer', 'the mellow autumn' of the 'Greek genius'.
