Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fist lesson of their lives is that the young citizen should take no counsel of his feas in attacking an evil to the state; another is that the remedy of war, though heroic, is sometimes costly almost beyond utility, and is justified only by the certainty of failure of all other means...
...palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings. By the aid of numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms of the columns and the entablature were derived from earlier wooden forms in use in the palaces of the heroic age. The well-known column between the two lions in the Lion's Gate differs but slightly from the earliest extant Doric columns; and in fact quite recently a column with flutings has actually been discovered in one of the ancient beehive tombs in Mycenae...
Mycenae, the citadel of Agamemnon, and the other strongholds of the Argive Plain, which all belong to the heroic times sung by Homer, had already fallen into ruin in the historical period. The traveller Pausanias visited them in the second century, A. D., and his description might well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence...
...closing, Professor Dorpfeld called attention to the remarkable correspondence between what we know Tiryns and Mycenae to have been and Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...
...Greeks and Romans, said the lecturer in closing, were convinced that the citadel of ancient Troy had occupied the site of the later city of Ilion, although they were able to see nothing of the ruins of the settlement of heroic times. Can we, then, longer doubt that Troy has actually been found, when we see before us stately walls of heroic times, and when the great importance of the site is so clearly demonstrated by its frequent prehistoric settlement...