Word: ancients
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...present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war. The geographer Strabo, however, and some other ancient writers were of a different opinion. They removed Troy to a site four miles further east. Among modern scholars, some have denied...
Schliemann sided with the inhabitants of ancient Ilion, and in 1870 undertook excavations, which he continued until 1890, on the hill now called Hissarlik. After Schliemann's death these excavations were continued by Professor Dorpfeld until 1894, first at the expense of Mrs. Schliemann and then at the expense of the German emperor...
Professor Dorpfeld, before he stated the results of these excavations, reminded his hearers of the facts about Troy and the later Ilion which have been transmitted to us from ancient writers. Homer, in referring to the situation of ancient Troy, gives many hints that point very directly to Ilion. Ilion itself was twice completely destroyed. The city was again rebuilt by Sulla and the Roman emperors, and was especially honored as the ancestral city of the Julii for Aeneas, the ancestor of this family, had come from Troy. In Byzantine times this great city was completely destroyed and became...
...trained as an engineer and architect. From 1877-1881, under appointment from the German government, he assisted in the excavations at Olympia. Since then he has devoted all his energies to original investigations which have brought before the public with a vividness never before possible the glories of ancient Greece. After his work at Olympia he carried on the excavations at Troy with Dr. Schliemann, and although Dr. Schliemann's name is more familiar in connection with Troy, it was really Dr. Dorpfeld's technical skill and wide experience that made the former's works possible. He next undertook with...
Besides the special interest for Harvard men which attaches to the ancient edifice as the church in which John Harvard was baptized, it is further noted as the burial place of John Gowen, the poet and friend of Chaucer, the dramatists Massinger and Fietcher, Edmund Shakspeare, the brother of William, and Lawrence Fletcher, who was joint lessee with with Shakspeare and Burbrige of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres. An excellent view of the interior of the church forms the frontispiece of the Graduates' Magazine for September...