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Heinrich Schliemann, autobiographical preface to Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans, 1881. Original German. Public domain.
Passage in the source language
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Source: Schliemann, Ilios. Stadt und Land der Trojaner, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1881.
Rendered English
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The Schliemann preface is chosen for the same reason a sculptor might choose to work from a small known marble: it is a piece of writing whose original voice is recognizable to scholarly readers, written in a register that resists fluent paraphrase, and unencumbered by copyright or editorial dispute. A passage that is challenging to translate cleanly is the most honest test of methodology.