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Homeric and Hellenic Ilium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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Dr. Schliemann has proved that Hissarlik was a seat of human habitation from a prehistoric age. This has not been proved for any other place which could claim to be the site of Homeric Troy. Assuming that ‘the tale of Troy’ is founded on a central fact—i.e., that a very old town, placed as the Iliad roughly indicates, was once besieged and taken—the claim of Hissarlik to be the site of that town is now both definite and unique. Thus far, Dr. Schliemann's argument is unanswerable. It is not my purpose to discuss here the further questions which arise as to the relation of his discoveries to places or objects described in the Iliad. The subject of which I would speak is historical rather than strictly archæological, yet one which, within certain limits, has a distinct bearing on Dr. Schliemann's results.

What was the belief of the ancient Greeks as to the site of Homeric Troy? And, in particular, how did they generally regard the claim of the Greek Ilium (at Hissarlik) to be considered as occupying the Homeric site?

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1881

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