From the summit of Ujek-Tepe the Egean spread out like a ma the plain of Troy is, and what a had in rendering the battle scenes "divine," "deep-flowing, silver-e low. The broad plain ranges to ribbon of the Hellespont. Mou grandly in the southeast; wh is the island of Lesbos, nestlin Westward and close to the sl is in the beginning of the I schoolboy knows was ruled w bow. It is a long low islan north.

Beyond the island of Iml rugged outline of Samothra 5,240 feet above the sea. It Earth-shaker, held no blind war and strife, high on the t for thence all Ida was plai city of Priam and the ships Homer who wrote that pa Schliemann made excavat of importance.

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this spot. That it is the same site as the Roman Пlium or Novum Ilium, which was supposed to rest on the Homeric Ilios, can hardly be doubted. The nine successive strata may be distinguished, beginning at the bottom, as follows:

I. A primitive settlement built of small stones and clay.

II. Primitive fortress; large brick buildings, much monochrome pottery, and objects of bronze, silver, and gold found by. Schliemann. This city was destroyed several times.

III., IV., V. Three successive village settlements built on the ruins of the second city, the houses of small stones and sun-dried brick, the villages sometimes with fortified walls.

VI. A walled city with fortress and towers of the Mycenæan age, great buildings of dressed stone, and Mycenæan and local pottery.

VII., VIII. Hellenic village settlements on the ruins of the sixth city.

IX. A Græco-Roman city, with temple of Athene, Boulé, and marble buildings.

The characteristics of these cities are determined not merely from their masonry, but from the pottery and implements found in them. In the first prehistoric city the pottery was of primitive character, and the idols were rude and barbaric.

In the second city, the gold and silver objects and monochrome pottery were also very ancient. The doorways, the fortress, the broad paved street, and the fact that this city met the fate ascribed to Troy and was consumed in a terrible conflagration, all favored Schliemann's conclusion. But, as already said, the second city was too old for the Homeric Troy in the character of its civilization. Furthermore, it was a city of small extent, and the hill at that level was too low for the Trojan acropolis.

The brilliant result of the excavations of 1893 is the essential identification, in a large way at least, of the sixth city with the Mycenæan period, and the finding of walls, towers, gateways, palaces and possibly a temple which identify it at once with the Homeric age. This does not discount any of the great results of Schliemann's work. By digging deep he revealed to us a civilization far more primitive than the Homeric; while Dörpfeld, by broadening out the excavations of the sixth city, has uncovered the Homeric city, and given us an acropolis of ample extent, with buildings even greater in size than those of Tiryns and Mycena. The area of this sixth city was equal to that of Tiryns, and but little smaller than that of Athens. "Without any hesi