Word: schliemann
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 in the time of Homer, and recognize their original splendor even in their ruins...
...galleries; its richly adorned palace, which recalls the descriptions of Homer; and finally the destruction of the citadel. Passing to Mycenae, he carried his audience through the well-known gate of the Lions to the graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been...
...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...
...photographs, as shown by the slides, these early settlements have an extremely ancient and primitive look. Of these five a srata Professor Dorpfeld described one, the second from the bottom, at length, regrading this to be of special importance. This also was a citadel with great walls and towers; Schliemann believed it to be the citadel of Priam. I this stratum he found the celebrated articles of gold which he denominated the "Treasure of Priam." This citadel, however, is certainly earlier than the time of the Trojan war. In viewing it one involuntarily recalls, as Professor Dorpfeld suggested, the tradition...
Professor Dorpfeld, by means of a vertical section of the hill, which showed the different strata one above the other, made it very clear how Schliemann came to overlook the upper citadel...