"In search of Virginia Dare, I returned to the memories of my own childhood
in a house overlooking the Connecticut River."
Dorothy was continuing her story.
"My father: professor, Pre-Socratic scholar.
The books I read as a child
(because they were scattered throughout the house on tables, in bookshelves)
The Odyssey, The Iliad, Herodotus, the Greek Anthology,
Schliemann's stirring account of the discovery of Troy.
Nowadays, his methods are considered questionable.
But it should be remembered that in those days
people thought Troy was imaginary, but Schliemann found it from literature.
He went to the Dardanelles with a copy of The Iliad,
and he followed the story until he found the site of Troy."