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PLATE I.
VIEW OF HISSARLIK FROM THE NORTH. Frontispiece.
After the Excavations.
T R O Y
AND ITS REMAINS;
A NARRATIVE OF RESEARCHES AND DISCOVERIES
MADE ON THE SITE OF ILIUM,
AND IN THE TROJAN PLAIN.
BY DR. HENRY SCHLIEMANN.
Translated with the Author’s Sanction.
EDITED
BY PHILIP SMITH, B.A.,
AUTHOR OF THE ‘HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD,’ AND OF THE
‘STUDENT’S ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST.’
WITH MAP, PLANS, VIEWS, AND CUTS,
REPRESENTING 500 OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY DISCOVERED ON THE SITE.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
NEW YORK:
SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG.
1875.
PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.
DR. SCHLIEMANN’S original narrative of his wonderful discoveries on thespot marked as the site of Homer’s Ilium by an unbroken tradition, fromthe earliest historic age of Greece, has a permanent value and interestwhich can scarcely be affected by the final verdict of criticism on theresult of his discoveries. If he has indeed found the fire-scathed ruinsof the city whose fate inspired the immortal first-fruits of Greekpoetry, and brought to light many thousands of objects illustrating therace, language, and religion of her inhabitants, their wealth andcivilization, their instruments and appliances for peaceful life andwar; and if, in digging out these remains, he has supplied the missinglink, long testified by tradition as well as poetry, between the famousGreeks of history and their kindred in the East;