Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 the existence of Troy altogether; others, as Curtius and Kiepert, have placed it six miles further toward the south...
...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 preserved in Homer that ancient Troy had one before been destroyed...
...many great demagogues. After the Dorian invasion Tiryns and Mycenal were both subjects of Argos. Dr. Schlieman found ruins of large palaces, at Tiryns and Mycenae, which so resemble the ruins of the palace ruins found at Troy that the two towns are now known to be of Trojan origin. The lecture was ended with a series of stereopticon views, showing the walls, tombs, relics, etc., which had been described by Professor Goodwin...
Chorus of Greek men, boarding school girls, and Trojan women...
Some scholars have refused to believe that Homer wished to describe the Trojan war and even Mr. Glad stone in our day is said to believe that the poems are full of Egyptian mythology. We have today a more correct text than ever before. Homer has a wonderful ability to enter into the spirit of his poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable...