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INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS.

  • Form of the Work
  • Changing and progressive opinions due to the Novelty of the Discoveries
  • Chronology
  • Duration of the Greek Ilium
  • Four successive strata of remains beneath its ruins on the hill of Hissarlik
  • Remains of the Earliest Settlers, who were of the Aryan race
  • Symbols on their terra-cottas
  • The Second Settlers, the Trojans of Homer
  • The Tower of Ilium, Scæan Gate, and City Walls, covered with the ashes of a conflagration
  • Skeletons denoting a bloody war
  • The Royal Treasure
  • Small extent of Troy not beyond the hill of Hissarlik
  • Poetical exaggerations of Homer, who only knew it by tradition
  • The city was wealthy and powerful, though small
  • Stone weapons and implements, not denoting the "Stone Age"
  • Contemporaneous use of copper, silver, and gold, for tools, weapons, vases, and ornaments
  • Inscriptions proving the use of a written language
  • Splendid remains of pottery
  • Symbols proving that the Trojans were an Aryan race
  • Their buildings of stone and wood
  • Antiquity of the City
  • The Third Settlers, also of the Aryan race
  • Their pottery coarser
  • Musical instruments
  • Their mode of building
  • Fewer implements of copper, but those of stone abundant
  • The Fourth Settlers, of the Aryan race, built the Wooden Ilium
  • Their progressive decline in civilization
  • Some copper implements, with tools and weapons of stone
  • The Greek Ilium built about B.C. 700: ceased to exist in the fourth century after Christ
  • Evidence of Coins
  • No Byzantine remains The Walls of Lysimachus
  • Metals found in the various strata: copper and bronze, silver, gold, lead: no iron or tin
  • Sculptures of the Greek age
  • Metopé of the Sun-God
  • Images of the owl-faced Athena common to all the pre-Hellenic strata their various forms
  • The perforated whorls of terracotta, with Aryan symbols
  • The sign of the Suastika 卍
  • The plain whorls
  • Discussion of the site of Troy
  • Traditionally placed on that of the Greek Ilium
  • View of Demetrius and Strabo refuted
  • Opinion of Lechevalier for Bunarbashi, generally accepted, but erroneous
  • No remains of a great city there
  • The site really that of Gergis
  • Fragments of Hellenic pottery only
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