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ant of those proud Athenian women who wore the golden 

 grasshopper in their hair as a sign that they were natives 

 of the City of the Violet Crown. She was not only dow- 

 ered with intellectual gifts of a high order, but she was 

 also her husband's most congenial companion and sympa- 

 thetic friend in all his literary work, while she was his 

 very right hand in those glorious enterprises at Hissarlik 

 and Mycenae, which secured for both of them undying 

 fame. 



Dr. Schliemann was the first to attest the never-failing 

 assistance which he received from this noble woman who, as 

 he informs us, was ' ' a warm admirer of Homer ' ' and ' i with 

 glad enthusiasm" joined her husband in executing the 

 great work which he had conceived in his early boyhood. 

 Usually they worked together, but at times Mrs. Schlie- 

 mann superintended a gang of laborers at one spot while 

 the Doctor was occupied at another in the immediate vicin- 

 ity. Thus it was she who excavated the heroic tumulus of 

 Batieia in the Troad that Batieia who, according to 

 Homer, was a queen of the Amazons and undertook a 

 campaign against Troy. 1 



Mme. Jane Dieulafoy is noted as the collaborator of her 

 husband, Marcel Dieulafoy, in the important archaeological 

 mission to Persia that was entrusted to him by the French 

 government. The results of this mission, in which Mme. 



illios, the City and Country of the Trojans, pp. 657-658, by Dr. 

 Henry Schliemann, New York, 1881. 



As an illustration of Mrs. Schliemann 's devotion to the work 

 which has rendered her, as well as her husband, immortal, a single 

 passage from the volume just quoted, p. 261, is pertinent. Keferring 

 to the sufferings and privations which they endured during their 

 third year's work at Hissarlik, Dr. Schliemann writes as follows: 



"My poor wife and myself, therefore, suffered very much since 

 the icy north wind, which recalls Homer's frequent mention of the 

 blasts of Boreas, blew with such violence through the chinks of our 

 house-walls, which were made of planks, that we were not even able 

 to light our lamps in the evening, while the water which stood near 



