Homer An Introduction to the Iliad And the Odyssey
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C. ), and from a kindred source. The Greek settlers at Hissarlik naturally affirmed that their ' Ilium ' stood on the site of Troy ; in proof of it, they showed the stone on which Palamedes had played draughts. Their paradox, a mere birth of local vanity, was as decisively rejected by sound criticism in ancient as in modern tiniest Origin 4^. The Homeric poet who created the Troy of the Homeric //-^'^^ probably knew — personally, or by description — a strong picture town at Bunarbashi as the ru...ling city of the surrounding of Troy. district. The legend of a siege, on which the I/iad is founded, may, or may not, have arisen from the actual siege of an older town at Hissarlik, which, in the poet's day, had already perished. He would easily be led to place the Troy of his poem in a position like that of the existing city on the Bali Dagh. He would give it a 'lofty' and 'beetling' acropolis. He would endow it with handsome ^ //. 20. 216 Kxiaae Be AapSavirjv, eirel oviro} "IXtos t/317 | iv ireoiw ire- ir6\i
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