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Professor Goodwin lectured on Troy, in the Fogg Art Museum last evening, under the auspices of the Classical Club, illustrating the lecture by the latest photographs of the ruins...
Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men 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...
...Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus...
Tonight at eight o'clock, under the auspices of the Classical Club, Proessor Good win will exhibit in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museu, the latest photographs of Troy. The public is invited...
CLASSICAL CLUB.- Professor Goodwin will show the latest photographs of Troy in the Fogg Art Museum Friday evening, May 22, at 8 o'clock. The public is invited...