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...second-year committee are: Thomas Reeves Armstrong, of Armstrong, Tex.; Richard Conoyer Evarts, of Cambridge; William Waldermar Hodson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Wright Hugus, of Wheeling, W. Va.; and Harold Alonzo Scragg, of Scranton, Pa. The first-year committee is composed of: Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter, of Albany, N. Y.; Strabo Vivian Claggett, of Long Beach, Cal.; Donald Earl Dunbar, of Springfield; Basil Duke Edwards, of Washington, D. C.; George Herbert Semler, of New York City and Whitney Hart Shepardson, of Hamilton...
...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 the existence of Troy altogether; others, as Curtius and Kiepert, have placed it six miles further toward the south, near Bunarbaschi...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...accounts of the temple at Epidauros are of a comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards...