Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comeswooing he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test andsoon... » 

Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comeswooing he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test andsoon she is kneeling on the hard ground in the trench removing the earthmethodically identifying salient points lifting out amphorae and bronzevessels without damaging them. Archaeology is not a science Obermann says.It is an art. The amosphere at Troy is tense and mysterious. Sophia findsherself increasingly baffled by the past... not only the remote past thatObermann is so keen to share with her in the form of his beloved epics of theTrojan wars but also his own recent past a past that he has chosen to hidefrom her. But she too is very good at the art of archaeology...I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood Sophia. Sophia Chrysanthis is in her twenties when the celebrated German archaeologist Herr Obermann seeks het out he wants a Greek bride who is able to read Homer. Sophia passes his test and soon she is tying canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench removing the earth methodically identifying salient points lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. Archaeology is not a sience Obermann says. It is an art. Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology perhaps too good. Obsessive and intuitive he is a romantic visionary. «