Word: sites
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...antiquity and in the present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war. The geographer Strabo, however, and some other ancient writers were of a different opinion. They removed Troy to a site four miles further east. Among modern...
Last week the seniors at Yale petitioned the corporation to change the site of the statue of ex-President Woolsey on the campus, as its proposed location would abolish the meeting ground of the seniors. The corporation has decided upon a new site, and the statue will be put in place as soon as possible and be dedicated on June...
...proposal to place the statue of the late President Woolsey in front of Yale Fence, near Durfee Hall, has aroused much feeling among the undergraduates, as the selection of that site would practically abolish the old campus meeting ground...
Letters received at Yale University say that important discoveries have been made in the excavations at Corinth under the auspices of the American School at Athens. The site of the ancient city has been found in a number of places. A broad, paved street has been laid bare, and a great number of red figures and vases of an exceedingly ancient period have been found. It was necessary to excavate at great depth, sometimes reaching nearly thirty feet below the surface...
...claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood; but no ruins were there visible except those of a Roman Illium...